Yellow Poplar
Light, white, and easily worked, Yellow Poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera) was the original species used in Tennessee for flooring in homes from cabins to plantation houses in the 1800s. The Hermitage, the home of Andrew Jackson near Nashville, is notable for wide and long planks of Poplar that have served in place since the 1830s. It is often used unfinished when matching floors of that era in historic homes. It can be used in prefinished form for those designing homes intended to pay homage to an older tradition in historic interiors. While it is quite light when first in place it turns relatively quickly to a light brown in ambient sunlight. The Yellow in its name refers to the flower the tree exhibits in spring, not to the color of the wood. Poplar will show some use of service over time in slight dents and heel mark.
Unfinished Yellow Poplar Flooring
Yellow Poplar is a nonstocking item that we run only on a custom basis. Please call or email us with your exact specification for a custom quote.
Prefinished Yellow Poplar Flooring
Select Poplar
This grade will be primarily light in color, though it will contain heartwood that varies from light brown to light green to dark brown or even purple. Knots, birdpeck, wormholes, and the like are excluded but small burl that is characteristic of Poplar is admitted.
Select Yellow Poplar is available in a Natural finish.
2 1/4″ – $4.99/SF
3″ – $5.29/SF
4″ – $5.79/SF
5″ – $5.99/SF
(Prices are for a 500 SF minimum order.)
Character Yellow Poplar Flooring
Yellow Poplar makes an excellent rustic floor with its abundant sound knots and occasional birdpeck in a character grade. While still an overall light-colored floor, this grade will have more heartwood and color variation and will include streaks of different colors as well as wormholes, bark pockets, and other sound character marks.
Character Yellow Poplar flooring is available in a Natural finish.
2 1/4″ – $4.59/SF
3″ – $4.79/SF
4″ – $4.99/SF
5″ – $5.19/SF
(Prices are for a 500 SF minimum order.)
