Populus tremuloides

Populus tremuloides, Hunter Lake Trail, Reno, Nevada, USA

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Populus tremuloides is listed as Least Concern.

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Malpighiales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Rosids Cladus: Eurosids I Ordo: Malpighiales

Familia: Salicaceae
Genus: Populus
Section: Populus sect. Populus
Species: Populus tremuloides

Name

Populus tremuloides Michx., Fl. bor.-amer. 2: 243 (1803).

Synonyms

• Homotypic
  • Populus tremula subsp. tremuloides (Michx.) Á.Löve & D.Löve, Bot. Not. 128: 505 (1975 publ. 1976).
• Heterotypic
  • Populus atheniensis Lodd. ex C.F.Ludw., Neuere Wilde Baumz.: 35 (1783).
  • Populus aurea Tidestr., Amer. Midl. Naturalist 2: 35 (1911).
  • Populus benzoifera Tausch, Flora 21: 754 (1838).
  • Populus benzoifera var. pendula Tausch, Flora 21: 754 (1838).
  • Populus cercidiphylla Britton, N. Amer. Trees: 180 (1908).
  • Populus cordata Poir. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck, Encycl. 5: 236 (1804).
  • Populus graeca Aiton, Hort. Kew. 3: 407 (1789).
  • Populus hispida Hausskn. & Sint. in Mitth. Geogr. Ges. (Thüringen) Jena, n.s., 13-14: 21 (1899).
  • Populus pendula Tausch, Flora 21: 754 (1838).
  • Populus polygonifolia F.G.Bernard, Naturaliste Canad. 95: 799 (1968).
  • Populus sibirica Tausch, Flora 21: 754 (1838), not validly publ.
  • Populus tremuliformis G.B.Emers., Rep. Trees Shrubs Massach., ed. 4: 243 (1887).
  • Populus tremuloides var. aurea (Tidestr.) Daniels in Fl. Boulder Colorado: 265 (1911).
  • Populus tremuloides f. betuloides J.Rousseau, Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 27: 377 (1957).
  • Populus tremuloides var. cercidiphylla Sudw. in Check List For. Trees U.S.: 61 (1927).
  • Populus tremuloides var. davisiana Tidestr., Amer. Midl. Naturalist 2: 35 (1911).
  • Populus tremuloides var. intermedia Vict., Contr. Inst. Bot. Univ. Montréal 16: 8 (1930).
  • Populus tremuloides var. magnifica Vict., Contr. Inst. Bot. Univ. Montréal 16: 8 (1930).
  • Populus tremuloides f. minor Cockerell, Nat. Notes 2: 14 (1891).
  • Populus tremuloides f. nana Cockerell, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 18: 172 (1891).
  • Populus tremuloides f. pendula (Tausch) Schelle in L.Beissner, E.Schelle & H.Zabel, Handb. Laubholzben.: 14 (1903).
  • Populus tremuloides var. pendula (Tausch) H.Jaeger in H.Jaeger & L.Beissner, Ziergehölze Gärt. Parkanl., ed. 2: 257 (1884).
  • Populus tremuloides var. reniformis Tidestr., Rhodora 16: 206 (1914).
  • Populus tremuloides f. reniformis Tidestr., Rhodora 16: 206 (1914).
  • Populus tremuloides var. rhomboidea Vict., Contr. Inst. Bot. Univ. Montréal 16: 10 (1930).
  • Populus tremuloides var. vancouveriana (Trel. ex Tidestr.) Sarg., Bot. Gaz. 67: 208 (1919).
  • Populus trepida Willd., Sp. Pl., ed. 4. 4: 803 (1805).
  • Populus vancouveriana Trel. ex Tidestr., Fl. N. W Coast: 118 (1915).
  • Tremula trepida Raf., Alsogr. Amer.: 42 (1838).

Hybrids

P. × heimburgeri – P. × smithii 

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Populus tremuloides Northern America Subarctic America Alaska, Northwest Territories, Yukon. Eastern Canada New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Québec. Western Canada Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan. Northeastern U.S.A. Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia. North-Central U.S.A. Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Illinois, Wisconsin. Northwestern U.S.A. Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming. Southeastern U.S.A. Delaware, Maryland (w.), North Carolina, Virginia. South-Central U.S.A. New Mexico, Texas. Southwestern U.S.A. Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah. Mexico Mexico Northeast Coahuila, Durango, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas. Mexico Northwest Sonora, Baja California. References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Michaux, A. 1803. Flora Boreali-Americana: sistens caracteres plantarum quas in America septentrionali collegit et detexit Andreas Michaux. Vol. 2. 340 pp. Parisiis et Argentorati [Paris & Strasbourg]: fratres Levrault. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Steyermark, J.A. 1977. Flora of Missouri. LXXXIII, 1728 pp., 5th print, Ames, Iowa University Press., ISBN 0-8138-0655-0. Reference page. 
• Eckenwalder, J.E. 2010. Populus tremuloides. Pp. 22 in Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.), Flora of North America North of Mexico. Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. 797 pp. Oxford University Press, New York / Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-531822-7. efloras FNA WebsiteReference page. 
• Mohlenbrock, R.H. 2014. Vascular Flora of Illinois. A Field Guide. 4th ed., 536 pp. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, Ill. ISBN 978-0-8093-3208-3. Reference page. 
• Ackerfield, J. 2015. Flora of Colorado. 818 pp. BRIT Press, Fort Worth, Tx. ISBN 978-1-889878-45-4. Reference page. 
• Villaseñor, J.L. 2016. Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 87: 559–902. DOI: 10.1016/j.rmb.2016.06.017 Online PDF Reference page. 

Links

• Barstow, M. & Stritch, L. 2018. Populus tremuloides. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018. IUCN Red List Category: Least Concern . DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T61960127A61960136.en.
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2022. Populus tremuloides in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2022 November 24. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2022. Populus tremuloides. Published online. Accessed: November 24 2022.
• Hassler, M. 2022. World Plants. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. . Populus tremuloides. Accessed: 24 November 2022.
• Hassler, M. 2022. Populus tremuloides. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2022. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2022 November 24. Reference page. 

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Amerikanische Zitterpappel
English: Quaking Aspen
Esperanto: Ŝajntremola poplo
suomi: Amerikanhaapa
magyar: Amerikai rezgő nyár
Nederlands: Amerikaanse ratelpopulier
Türkçe: Amerika titrek kavağı

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