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

If you've been walking outside recently (when it wasn't raining), you know it is "cottonwood-time." Plenty of little puffs are floating through the air and seem to be piling up everywhere.

The bark of some trees even has a scent in winter. Sassafras trees smell very spicy and black cherry trees have a bitter almond scent. Next, look at the tree’s buds.

Cottonwood trees may be attractive providers of shade, but their presence near utility sites poses a significant threat to utility infrastructure and wildfire mitigation.

Every year the eastern cottonwood trees in Michigan release their fluffy seeds. The end of June likely marks the end of this process. Here's what to know.

Eastern cottonwood is one of the largest eastern hardwoods, short-lived but the fastest-growing commercial forest species in North America.

A: When we see something weird growing on tree bark, it is usually algae, lichens, moss or fungi (or a combination of these). These can be gray, white, green or even orange.

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 ...

In its annual forest health report, the Department of Natural Resources found worrisome trends for drought-stressed trees in Washington.

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (KMID/KPEJ) – Video showed a hot air balloon hitting an old cottonwood tree at the former Club Rio Rancho Golf Course, with two people inside about 25 feet above the ground.

Local News Discovery of bark beetle in Bothell is ‘concerning,' state says Washington scientists were surprised to find the tree-killing bugs north of Pierce County.

Artist Madeleine Murray makes relief prints of the bark of a large eastern cottonwood tree in her yard in Burlington on June 14. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger ...