Populus grandifolia

• BOTANICAL NAME: Populus grandifolia
• COMMON NAME: Large-toothed Poplar
• FAMILY: Salicaceae
• NATIVITY: Maine to North Carolina west to Illinois
• GROWTH HABIT:  50-70’
• HARDINESS:  USDA Zone 3 to 5 (6)
• OPTIMUM GROWING CONDITIONS:  Optimum growth in moist soils with full sun but can grow in gravelly soils.
• SUCCESSIONAL STATUS: Successional
• FACULTATIVE STATUS:  Facultative Upland
• LANDSCAPE VALUE:  Good tree for sandy slopes
• FOLIAGE:   Alternate, simple, on a long petiole and irregularly toothed on the margin.  New growth is pubescent and changes to yellow in the fall.
• BUDS:  Imbricately scaled, long and pointed, fine pubescence is evident.
• BARK:  Bark is light in color sometimes a greenish gray color, nondescript.
• FRUIT:  Nearly pear-shaped with fine hair tufts at the tip.  Non-descript
• PESTS:  None serious