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Please help ID this tree. what type of aspen?

 
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I want to ID a tree with flat stems attaching the leaf. But it didn't have white bark like a quaking aspen. Are all trees with flat stems attaching the leaves aspens and then you just determine the type by leaf shape and toothiness and bark color?
 
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Wikipediea might help:
Populus#Classification
 
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post a picture, there are several species of poplar
 
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Sorry, thought I had. I'm thinking now it's a cottonwood. what do you think?

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Cottonwood and Aspen are Poplars. Check out that wikipedia page I linked above.
 
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yes, that's cottonwood
 
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