The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Populus grandidentata
Also called Canadian Aspen, Large Tooth Aspen, Longtooth Aspen, Big Toothed Aspen, Large Toothed Aspen, Grand Tremble, Largetooth Aspen
Bigtooth aspen is a medium-sized deciduous tree native to northeastern North America, valued for its trembling leaves and as a fast-growing pioneer species. It is rarely grown in gardens and is best suited to cool, moist, open sites with full sun.
Populus grandidentata, commonly called large-tooth aspen, big-tooth aspen, American aspen, Canadian poplar, or white poplar, is a deciduous tree native to eastern North America.
The range of Populus grandidentata extends from Virginia north to Maine and Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia; west to southeastern Manitoba and Minnesota; south through Iowa to extreme northeastern Missouri; and east through Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and West Virginia. Disjunct populations are found in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
Various wildlife feed on the bark, foliage, and twig buds.
White Poplar · Balsam poplar · Himalayan Poplar · Eastern cottonwood · Tana River poplar · Black Poplar · Populus pruinosa · Simon poplar · Eurasian Aspen · Quaking aspen · Western Balsam Poplar · Yunnan poplar
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Populus grandidentata 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.
