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​Quaking Aspen is a gorgeous tree throughout the year, but is admired the most during the winter, because of the stunning white bark
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Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides)
What did the tree do when it got scared?
  • It began to quake! 
Did you know? 
  • The wood is used to make plywood, palates, chopsticks, matches, particle board, and hamster bedding  
  • The long, flat stems make the leaves shake in the slightest of breezes, which is where it gets the name, “Quaking” Aspen
  • The branches were boiled down and used as a cleaner for hunting traps and tools
  • A group of Aspen trees make a great firebreak—and can sometimes help to extinguish fires because of the small amount of flammable accumulation!
  • Quaking Aspen is the most widely distributed species in North America 
  • Native Americans would cut the inner bark into strips, dry it out, and ground it into meal, to be mixed with other starches for bread or mush 
  • This is the ONLY Quaking Aspen tree here at the nature center! Pretty cool, huh? 
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Common Names: 
  • Quaking Aspen 
  • Golden Aspen 
  • Mountain Aspen
Wildlife Benefits: ​
  • Bark, buds, new sprouts, and twigs are eaten by deer, mice, voles, shrews, chipmunks, and rabbits
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Habitat: 
  • ​Woodlands 
Size: 
  • 30-40' tall, with a crown width of 20-30' ​
Growing Conditions: 
  • ​Full sun to partial shade
  • Moist, well-drained soil 
Select Identification Characteristics: 
  • Leaf Type: Simple
  • Leaf Arrangement: Alternate
  • Bud Arrangement: Alternate
  • Terminal Bud: Single
  • *Petiole: Flattened 
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