Author | L. | |
Distribution | More-or-less throughout the state, but with a curious gap between the Piedmont and the outer Coastal Plain.
Native of Europe; in N.A. throughout southern Canada and the U.S. | |
Abundance | Uncommon to locally numerous. | |
Habitat | Waste places, roadside thickets, margin of woods, back dunes, old fields, persisting at former homesites. | |
Phenology | Flowering March-May. Apparently most N.A. material is female. | |
Identification | White Poplar is very distinctive with its leaves dark green above and white beneath; the margins have a handful of small rounded lobes. It is a small tree that in North America reproduces by cloning; it normally has a characteristic white bark. | |
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State Rank | SE | |
Global Rank | G5 | |
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USACE-agcp | | |
USACE-emp | | |