Eastern cottonwood (Populus deltoides), one of the largest eastern hardwoods, is short-lived but the fastest-growing commercial forest species in North America. It grows best on moist well-drained ...

Use leaves, bark, and habitat to identify a cottonwood tree, and learn more about cottonwood's characteristics and locations.

Like dandelions, cottonwood trees use the wind to disperse their seeds to new places. The loosely held together fibers hold a seed in the center that falls out soon after the fruit capsule hits ...

Cottonwood trees have a soft wood density and are used as a cheap type of lumber hardwood. There are many cottonless male forms and hybrids between P. deltoides and P. nigra have been selected ...

John C. Fremont fed his horses the inner bark of cottonwood trees during a brutal winter in Reno. Snow in the Sierras prevented him reaching California for many months. The trees would later be ...

The cottonwood, widespread and native to North America, is dioecious — meaning each tree is either male or female. This particular cottonwood is female and, thus, the anticipated snow.

I concur with Ed Smith’s letter of Dec. 9. The Cottonwood tree is much more emblematic of Carson City than the Bristlecone Pine. Further, the Carson River, an essential element of Carson City, appears ...

Some residents in Draper are fighting to save a cottonwood tree that may be 200 years old. New development threatens to rob the tree of its water source, but the people found support from the city.

Cottonwood trees have the potential to live between 200-400 years if given the right environment. The cottonwood tree that used to make its home along the Wisconsin River bank along Water Street ...

As a child, Fred Wheeler used to play on the large Eastern cottonwood tree on his family’s farm just off Russellville Road. But Wheeler, now 73, didn’t know he was playing on one of the ...