Populus albaL.

white poplar

WFO wfo-0000928384 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Populus alba, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. a Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-02 / obs. 202658373
Populus alba, photographed by Michel Langeveld
fig. b Michel Langeveld, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200327737
Populus alba, photographed by Daniel Linzbauer
fig. c Daniel Linzbauer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204074443
Populus alba, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. d Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199154590
Populus alba, photographed by Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas
fig. e Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195841251
Populus alba, photographed by Marie-Louise Besenius
fig. f Marie-Louise Besenius, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203590633
Populus alba, photographed by Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky)
fig. g Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202508607
Populus alba, photographed by Thomas Koffel
fig. h Thomas Koffel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197879461

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Flowering n = 58 observations

Peak flowering in Mar, from 58 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 12 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Leuce alba (L.) Opiz
  • Populus aegyptiaca hort. ex W.H.Baxter
  • Populus alba f. pyramidalis (Bunge) Dippel
  • Populus alba var. alba
  • Populus alba var. bolleana (Lauche) Otto
  • Populus alba var. nivea Aiton
  • Populus bolleana Carrière
  • Populus hickeliana Dode
  • Populus major Mill.
  • Populus nivea (Aiton) Willd.
  • Populus nivea Wesm.
  • Populus pseudonivea Grossh.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.