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Populus deltoides
Also called Necklace Poplar, Plains Cottonwood, Common Cottonwood, Match Poplar, Cottonwood, Rio Grande Cottonwood
A very fast-growing, large native North American tree that can reach 20 to 30 m, with silvery-white bark and triangular leaves that rustle in the wind. It thrives in moist soil with full sun and is best suited to large gardens or open land, not small spaces.
Populus deltoides, the eastern cottonwood or necklace poplar, is a species of cottonwood poplar native to North America, growing throughout the eastern, central, and southwestern United States as well as the southern Canadian prairies, the southernmost part of eastern Canada, and northeastern Mexico.
The range of the eastern cottonwood is very large, stretching from southwestern Mexico northwards to the southern provinces of Canada and from New Hampshire to Oregon. In Mexico, it is mainly present as subspecies wislizeni and it is native only to the state of Jalisco in the southwest. In the northwest, it only grows in the state of Sonora. In contrast, it is found in about half the states of northeastern Mexico including Aguascalientes, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Durango, Nuevo León, and Zacatecas. It is also present in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz.
The wood of eastern cottonwood is typical of the Populus family in its softness, weighing just 0.45 g/cm3 (28 pounds per cubic foot). It is utilized for things like plywood and interior parts of furniture.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Populus deltoides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
