Had a tree come down due to being rotten at the trunk base. Didn’t pay much attention thinking it was ordinary poplar. Cutting it up it was not the normal greenish poplar. Best I can tell it is Balsam Poplar, but that is not native to my area. I thought maybe hackberry, but really doesn’t match IMO. The leaves are too dry now, but they looked like poplar leaves.
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Yes a Poplar species, probably just a regular Poplar, problem is that these species do hybridize in the wild, probably why it is all very often called Popple, as there is no easy way to tell them all apart, besides the bark does change a lot as the trees grow larger, and leaves are not there large part of the year, it all makes PULP.
So yes from smooth bark to very high ridged as shown here in these pictures I made
I find that the leaves throughout most of the year show this brown on the bottom side of the leaves, it is the easy way to tell the Balsam Poplar apart from the other Poplar species.
The greenish wood color the OP mentioned is probably not from a Poplar tree but the Tulip tree that is often called (incorrect) Tulip Poplar, and not a Poplar or related to the Poplar species, but a Magnolia species.
And since this tree had been standing dead before it fell over, and then lay down, it is no wonder the wood color is all gray and streaked.
