Scientific Name: Populus tremuloides
Common Name: trembling aspen , white poplar
Family Name: Salicaceae
Origin: North America
Hardiness Zone: Zone 1: (below -46 °C)
Plant Type: Tree - deciduous
Mature Size: 15 - 22m x 7 - 10m (height x width)
Habit: Spreading, Upright
Form: Oval - vertical, Round
Texture: Medium
Landscape Uses: Wind break
Exposure: Full sun
Soil or Media:
Leaves: Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Deltoid, Orbicular, Ovate, Crenate
Flowers: Catkin (ament), Red, Silver, Mar-Apr
Fruit: Capsule, White, Jun
Key ID Features:
Leaves on mature trees are nearly round, 3-7cm long x 4-8cm wide, petiole flattened (larger and more triangular on young trees and suckers); catkins 4-6cm long, early spring before leaves appear; fruit 10cm long pendulous string of 6mm wide capsules, each containing about 10 minute seeds embedded in cottony fluff for wind dispersal in early summer.