| Populus balsamifera L. | |||
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| Family | Salicaceae — APG family: Salicaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Populus tacamahacca Mill. | ||
| Common name | balsam poplar, cottonwood | ||
| Description | Tree, usually about 15 meters tall, exceptionally up to 30 meters tall and 60 cm in diameter; bark grayish-brown, deeply furrowed; leaves broadly lanceolate to ovate, acuminate or subcordate, paler beneath; overwintering buds large, pointed, covered with yellow, fragrant resin; aments with fringed bracts; capsule glabrous, thick-walled, ovoid. | ||
| Ecology | Common in river valleys and alluvial flats over large parts of interior Alaska and the Yukon; reaches to 1,200 meters in McKinley Park. Described from North Amer- ica. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Hybridizes rarely with P. tremuloides. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.