Retired wildlife biologist Tami Gingrich details the unique qualities of the cottonwood tree, highlighting their showy seed ...

Of course, not all cottonwood trees produce the seeds that earned this tree its common name. You see, there are male and female cottonwood trees, and male trees do not produce seed. The pendulous ...

Cottonwoods are fast growing trees in Populus genus. These trees are hardy to zones 2 through 9. Cottonwood trees produce cotton every other year. They preserve their resources. There is a ...

"Cottonwood Tree Guide: Identification of Eastern, Leaves, Seeds & More." 8 Billion Trees. "Fremont Cottonwood." The National Wildlife Federation.

Snow in June — it happens every year. This snow, though, is made up of the fluffy cotton-like seeds that float off cottonwood ...

Male clones, which have none of the objectionable "cotton" associated with seed, are preferred ... several images of parts of Eastern cottonwood. The tree is a hardwood and the lineal taxonomy ...

When the Kansas legislature selected a state tree it chose the native cottonwood because its presence was synonymous with ...

author of “The Cottonwood Tree: An American Champion,” a single Eastern cottonwood can produce as many as 30 million seeds in one season. The older a tree grows, the more seeds it makes.

It isn’t snow. The fluff is from female eastern cottonwood trees. The tree’s seeds are blanketed by thin white floss, sort of like a dandelion, allowing them to hitch a ride on the breeze away ...

A young tree can add 6 feet or more in height each ... Songbirds such as grosbeaks eat cottonwood seeds. Mice, cottontail rabbits, white-tailed deer and elk feed on shoots, stems, twigs and ...