Other Names: Yellow Poplar; Tulip Poplar.

 Stately tree up to 100 feet tall; trunk diameter up to 4 feet; crown oblong or pyramidal from a long, columnar trunk.

 Grayish, becoming deeply furrowed at maturity; furrows often whitish within.

Smooth, reddish‑brown; leaf scars alternate, nearly spheri­cal, with several bundle traces, with stipule scars encircling the twig.

 Flattened, up to I inch long, resembling duckbills.

Alternate, simple; blades divided into four broad lobes, the upper two lobes usually with a conspicuous notch between them, bright green, averaging 4 to 6 inches long and broad.

 About two inches long, cup‑shaped, with six yellow‑green petals with an orange base surrounding a cone‑shaped cluster of pistils; opening in May.

 Dry "cones" about 21h inches long, composed of several winged seeds.

 Rich soil.

Scattered in park.  Mostly in North west quadrant

 The shape of the leaf.

Tree species facts from Robert Mohlenbrock , Forest Trees of Illinois , 1996