 A few nurseries in Finland offer this species even though it is not fully hardy there and tends to be held to shrub form.Nectar is produced in the orange part of the flowers.The species is a significant honey plant in the eastern United States, yielding a dark reddish, fairly strong honey unsuitable for table honey but claimed to be favorably regarded by some bakers

The soft, fine-grained wood of tulip trees is known as "poplar" (short for "yellow-poplar") in the U.S., but marketed abroad as "American tulipwood" or by other names.