Common Name: Lombardy Poplar
Color: Dark green in the summer and yellow in the fall
Outstanding Qualities: Growth habit; growth rate
Texture: Coarse
Size: 50 to 75 feet tall and a spread of 20 feet
Growth Rate: Fast
Form: Columnar
Mass: Dense
Uses: Windbreaks; fast growing season
Length of life: Short
Ideal Growth Condidtions: Does well in wet locations; requires full sun and does well in most soils
Tolerance to climactic conditions: Grows well in a wide range of climates
Maintenance: Weak wood; messy, requires little care when young and some pruning when older
Propagation: Seeds; cuttings
Identifying characteristics: Bark is whitish gray; leaves are very wide at the base, similar to cottonwood, but somewhat smaller, much less toothed, dark green and alternate; fruit is a catkin
Native habitat: Europe
Location on campus: Windbreak east of the Architecture Building