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§1 Plant
Populus nigra L.
vernacular Lombardy poplar — species · Salicaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Salicaceae Mirb.
- Genus
- Populus
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 147 counties across 25 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- High
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -28 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 160 min.
- Precipitation
- 20–50 in/yr
- pH range
- 5–8.5
- Root depth
- 32 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Multiple Stem
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 190 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 80 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- White
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Early Spring
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Spring
- Spread rate
- None
- Stratify
- No
- Propagation
- cuttings, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Fuelwood
- Low
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 147 counties across 25 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 17 I ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 2 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 3 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 13 I ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 2 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 17 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 21 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 5 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 18 I ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 2 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PONI ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3040227 ↗Record version
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