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Hybrid Balsam Poplar - Populus x brayshawii
Other Names:  Populus angustifolia × Populus balsamifera

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Global Rank: GNA
State Rank: SNA
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General Description
Trees up to 20 meters tall; branches ascending in upper half of trunk. Branchlets orange-brown turning gray by the third year, glabrous to thinly pubescent. Petioles round in cross-section, mostly 1-2.5 cm long. Leaves mostly 5-9 cm long, 1.5-3.5 cm wide, lanceolate to narrowly ovate, glabrous, minutely crenate-serrate, apex acute. Catkins lose, 2.5-10 cm long, rachis hairy. Floral disks 1-2 mm wide. Staminate flowers with 15-25 stamens; pistillate flowers with broad, compact stigmas. Capsules 2-valved, 4-5.5 mm long, broadly ovoid to orbiculoid (adapted from: Larson, 1986, Flora of the Great Plains).

Species Range
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Range Comments
Sporadically from BC, AB, MT and ND to AZ and CO (Kartesz in prep. 2012).

Observations in Montana Natural Heritage Program Database
Number of Observations: 19

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Habitat
Riparian areas in canyons.

References
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    • Lesica, P., M.T. Lavin, and P.F. Stickney. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. Fort Worth, TX: BRIT Press. viii + 771 p.
    • Lesica, P., M.T. Lavin, and P.F. Stickney. 2022. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants, Second Edition. Fort Worth, TX: BRIT Press. viii + 779 p.
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Hybrid Balsam Poplar — Populus x brayshawii.  Montana Field Guide.  .  Retrieved on , from