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For a full discussion of this table, see ASPEN AND POPLAR IN NORTH AMERICA

caveats:
SPECIES
ALL COMMON NAMES FOR THAT SPECIES
preceded by [# of common names]
populus acuminata [3] cottonwood, lance-leaved cottonwood, rydberg's cottonwood
populus alba [17] aspen, black poplar, bolleana poplar, columnar-tree, english poplar, european poplar, great aspen, lombardy poplar, rattler-tree, silver poplar, silver-leaf poplar, silver-leaved poplar, white abele, white aspen, white poplar, white-leaf, whitebark
populus androscoggin [1] androscoggin poplar
populus angustifolia [15] balsam, bitter cottonwood, black cottonwood, cottonwood, lanceleaf cottonwood, mountain cottonwood, narrow-leaf balsam poplar, narrow-leaf cottonwood, narrow-leaf poplar, narrow-leaved poplar, narrowleaf cottonwood, rydberg cottonwood, smoothbark cottonwood, willow cottonwood, willow-leaved cottonwood
populus arizonica [2] arizona cottonwood, cottonwood
populus balsamifera [38] balm, balm cottonwood, balm of gilead, balm poplar, balm-gilly, balm-of-gilead, balm-of-gilead poplar, balsam, balsam cottonwood, balsam poplar, black balsam poplar, black cottonwood, black poplar, california poplar, canadian balsam poplar, canadian poplar, cottonwax, cottonwood, eastern balsam poplar, hackmatack, hairy balm-of-gilead, hearleaf balsam poplar, heart-leaf balsam poplar, jack's cottonwood, jack's hybrid poplar, japanese balsam poplar, maine poplar, northern black cottonwood, ontario poplar, poplar, rough-barked poplar, roughbark poplar, tacamahac poplar, toughbark poplar, western balm, western balm cottonwood, western balsam, western balsam poplar
populus bolleana [1] bollean poplar
populus canadensis [4] black italian poplar, canadian poplar, carolina poplar, serotina poplar
populus candicans [1] ontario poplar
populus canescens [1] gray poplar
populus deltoides [39] angulata poplar, aspen cottonwood, big cottonwood, carolina poplar, common cottonwood, cottontree, cottonwood, deltoides poplar, eastern cottonwood, eastern poplar, fremont cottonwood, great plains cottonwood, italian black poplar, missourian poplar, necklace poplar, northern cottonwood, northern fremont cottonwood, palmer cottonwood, plains cottonwood, poplar, rio grande cottonwood, river poplar, sargent poplar, sargenti poppel, southern cottonwood, swedish balsam poplar, swiss poplar, tennessee poplar, texas cottonwood, texas poplar, texas poppel, valley cottonwood, vermont poplar, virginia poplar, water poplar, western cottonwood, whitewood, wislizenus cottonwood, yellow cottonwood
populus eufratica [1] poplar
populus fremontii [8] arizona cottonwood, cottonwood, freemont cottonwood, fremont cottonwood, fremont poplar, meseta cottonwood, rio grande cottonwood, white cottonwood
populus grandidentata [17] american aspen, aspen, big-toothed poplar, bigtooth aspen, bigtooth poplar, canadian aspen, canadian poplar, large american aspen, large poplar, large-toothed aspen poplar, large-toothed poplar, largetooth aspen, largetooth poplar, poplar, popple, white poplar, whitewood
populus heterophylla [8] black cottonwood, cotton-gum, cottontree, cottonwood, downy poplar, river cottonwood, swamp cottonwood, swamp poplar
populus nigra [17] aspen, black aspen, black lombardy poplar, black poplar, canada poplar, carolina poplar, catfoots poplar, english poplar, european black poplar, lombardy poplar, mormon-tree, old-english poplar, poplar, poplar-of-jerusleum-haur, vereecken poplar, white poplar, willow poplar
populus pyramidalis [3] common poplar, poplar tree, pyramid-like aspen
populus robusta [1] lombardy poplar
populus sargentii [2] great plains poplar, plains cottonwood
populus serotina [1] hybrid black poplar
populus tacamahaca [2] balsam poplar, tacamahac poplar
populus tremula [15] aspen, black poplar, chinese aspen, european aspen, european columnar aspen, finnish aspen, french aspen, poplar, quaking poplar, swedish aspen, swedish giant aspen, trembling aspen, trembling poplar, weeping aspen, white poplar
populus tremuloides [21] american aspen, american poplar, aspen, aspen poplar, canadian aspen, golden aspen, golden quaking aspen, golden trembling aspen, leaf aspen, mountain aspen, poplar, quaking aspen, quiver-leaf, quiver-leaf aspen, small-tooth aspen, smoothbark poplar, tremble, trembling aspen, trembling aspen poplar, trembling poplar, white poplar
populus trichocarpa [6] balm cottonwood, black cottonwood, cottonwood, northern black cottonwood, poplar, western balsam poplar
populus ussuriensis [1] poplar
populus wilsonii [1] wilson's poplar