Populus tremuloides - Quaking aspen

Quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) is a fast-growing, pioneer deciduous tree of cold semi-arid North American uplands, its inner bark ground into flour and used in traditional medicine.

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 2¹
• Hardiness zone 3¹
• Hardiness zone 4¹
• Hardiness zone 5¹
• Full sun¹
• Well drained soil¹
• Moist soil¹

Outputs

• Human food¹
• Medicinal use¹
• Wood¹

Type

• Populus spp. - Poplar
• Tree
• Deciduous

Functions

• Flammable²

Footnotes

1. Populus tremuloides | Plants for a Future ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰

2. Leaf burn times of California native plants, Las Pilitas Nursery, 2005 propane-torch ignition trial, live-leaf ignition time 5 seconds (“poof!“) ↩