Will tolerate heat, take any soil. Good use for high screen wall, and windbreak. Used for wood of pencils and totem poles. Major problem is canker caused by a fungus. Generally the canker is worse if the tree is subjected to drought.
Crown is conical under good conditions, irregular in stressful conditions.
Leaves are simple and triangular shaped, slightly cordate, sharply acuminate. Margin is toothed. Petiole is flat as it is on most Poplars. Foliage is a shiny bright green in summer and strikingly yellow in fall. Flowers appear in spring and are yellowish green.