Michigan Trees: A Handbook of the Native and Most Important Introduced Species

by Charles Herbert Otis

4. Staminate flowering branchlet, × 1/2.

5. Staminate flower, enlarged.

6. Pistillate flowering branchlet, × 1/2.

7. Pistillate flower, enlarged.

8. Fruit, × 1/2.

SALICACEAE

White Poplar

Populus alba L.

HABIT.—A large tree 60-80 feet high, with a trunk diameter of 2-4 feet, forming a large, spreading, rounded or irregular crown of large, crooked branches and sparse, stout branchlets.