**Quaking aspen
**Populus tremuloides
QUAKING ASPEN
Salicaceae
North America
Location: map coordinates J-10 (near south side of Jenkins Hall), N 39°11'13'' W 75°32'44''
Planting history: planted November 2010. Source: Donated by Octoraro Native Plant Nursery (via Dr. S. Yost).
Description:
**Adventive species (not native to Delaware, but native to N. America and now growing wild in DE), rarely escaping to disturbed areas in New Castle County piedmont
QUAKING ASPEN
Salicaceae
North America
Location: map coordinates J-10 (near south side of Jenkins Hall), N 39°11'13'' W 75°32'44''
Planting history: planted November 2010. Source: Donated by Octoraro Native Plant Nursery (via Dr. S. Yost).
Description:
- medium-sized deciduous tree
- etymology: Populus the Latin name; tremuloides = trembling (the leaves)
- leaf almost round, with small teeth; 2”-6”; beautiful golden-yellow in fall
- leaves “quake” or tremble because the petiole is long, and flattened in the plane opposite to the plane of the leaf
- bark whitish when young; yellowish-green later
- form vegetative clones from root sprouts; some clones may be ca 10,000 years old; fast-growing
- native range mainly northern cooler North America, but with a wide distribution: across Canada, south in the mountains to Mexico, and on the east coast south to New Jersey and Virginia
**Adventive species (not native to Delaware, but native to N. America and now growing wild in DE), rarely escaping to disturbed areas in New Castle County piedmont
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