Foothills. Wet areas, roadsides. Spring.
Near Yellow Jacket Canyon, June 21, 2004.

Silver Poplars are very handsome, introduced European trees with showy leaves of dark green and fluffy silver.  Leaf and twig stems are covered in the same downy hairs as the leaf backs. The trees prefer moist areas and will spread rapidly by root sprout to form thickets of silver and green. The trees have a strong central trunk to forty feet tall.

"Populus" is Latin for "people" and is the classical Latin name for the tree.  "Alba" is Latin for "white".

Foothills. Wet areas, roadsides. Spring.
Near Yellow Jacket Canyon, June 21, 2004.