Bigtooth Aspen               pop-U-lus gran-di-den-TA-ta

• Broadleaf deciduous tree, to 50-70 ft tall and 20-40 ft wide (~15-20 × 6-12 m), pyramidal when young, becoming oval, open and irregular with age.  Bark thin, gray tinged with green; on old tree, fissured, dark brown with red.  Leaves alternate, simple, broad-ovate to elliptic,7.5-10 cm long, tip sharp pointed, base truncated to broad wedge-shaped, lower margin entire, upper part has coarse, dentate teeth, upper surface dark green, lower surface gray pubescent; petiole 2.5-6 cm long.  Flowers u  
• Sun to part shade.  Best in fertile, moist soil.  Fast growing.
• Hardy to USDA Zone (2) 3    Native from Nova Scotia to Ontario and Minnesota, south to North Carolina, Tennessee, Illinois and Iowa.
• grandidentata: having big teeth; grandi, big, and dentata, teeth.