Populus tremuloides
Quaking Aspen
Light, airy leaves rustling in even the slightest breeze create the delicate sound of Poplars and the smaller-growing Aspens. Grown commercially, their slender gray trunks are cut for pulpwood.
Populus tremuloides Salicaceae
Quaking Aspen pop-U-lus trem-u-LOY-dez
Deciduous tree, 40-50 ft (12-15 m), pyramidal and narrow when young, long trunk and narrow, rounded crown when mature.
USDAFS Silvics of North America - USDAFS Additional Silvics - Landowner Factsheet - USDA Plants Database
Populus tremuloides is native to North America. Range may be expanded by planting. See states reporting quaking aspen (opens a new window).
Populus tremuloides (Aspen)
Salicaceae (Willow Family)
Golden Aspens on the mountainside give way to golden Narrow Leaf Cottonwoods at streamside.
Populus tremuloides (Aspen)
Salicaceae (Willow Family) ...
Populus tremuloides
Quaking Aspen
Quaking Aspen
Photo courtesy Wisconsin State Herbarium
and Kenneth J. Sytsma ...
Populus tremuloides range map
The five typical aspens are all native to cold regions with cool summers, in the north of the Northern Hemisphere, extending south at high altitudes in the mountains.
Populus tremuloides. Quaking Aspen. Sprayed with herbicides.
Salix spp. Willow. Hollowtop Lake. Tobacco Root Mountains. Pony, Montana.
Salix spp. Willow.
Quaking Aspen
(Populus tremuloides Michx.)
LEAVES: Alternate, simple, almost round 1"-3" in diameter, margins finely toothed, shiny dark green above, lighter below; petiole slender, flattened.
Quaking Aspen ( Populus tremuloides )
Quartinia Star Cluster ( Pentas lanceolata )
Quasar Begonia ( Begonia Quasar ) ...
Trembling aspen
Populus tremuloides
A slender, graceful tree with smooth, greenish-white bark; grows up to 25 metres tall; distinctive leaves that quiver in the slightest breeze.
Quaking aspen
(Populus tremuloides)
Zone 1
10 x 5
Most widely distributed tree in North America (Labrador to Alaska to northern Mexico) ...
American Aspen [English]: Populus tremuloides
American Aspen [English]: Populus tremuloides var. sieboldi
American Awlwort [English]: Subularia aquatica var. aquatica
American Awlwort [English]: Subularia aquatica ...
Populus tremuloides (Quaking Aspen)
Populus ×polygonifolia synonym of Populus tremuloides (Quaking Aspen)
Populus arizonica synonym of Populus fremontii (Fremont Cottonwood, Western Cottonwood) ...
Bartonia virginica, Gaultheria procumbens, Nyssa sylvatica, Populus tremuloides, Quercus palustris, Rubus hispidus.
Dry, sandy soils:
Hieracium canadense fasciculatum, Lespedeza capitata, Potentilla simplex, Vaccinium angustifolium, Viola fimbriatula.
Populus alba, the white poplar, also tolerant of quite alkaline and dry soils; zone 3-8. Populus tremuloides is also known as the quaking aspen, hardy zones 2-6; Populus nigra italica is the Lombardy poplar; this variety is relatively salt-tolerant, ...
Quaking Aspen, (Populus tremuloides)
Redbud (Cercis canadensis)
Sassafras (Sassafras albidum)
Snowbell (Styrax)
Soapberry (Sapindus drummondii)
Stewartia (Stewartia pseudocamellia)
Sourwood (Oxydendrum arboreum)
Sugarberry (Celtis laevigata) ...
 See also: Aspen, Quaking Aspen, Poplar, May, Green
  
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