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

Every year the eastern cottonwood trees in Michigan release their fluffy seeds. The end of June likely marks the end of this ...

Cottonwood trees are pruned during dormancy, between late fall and early spring. The best time to prune the trees is in late winter, after the last frosts and just before the buds begin to break.

Most other species of trees have alternate branching patterns, including oak, cherry, and cottonwood trees. The wood's overall color palette may look dull gray or brown.

There's a cottonwood tree with a limb hangin' over. We'll do the cannonball off a rope swing. Trent Willmon sets this lakeside scene in his song “The Good Life.” ...

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho -- If you want to impress your friends with your tree knowledge on your next hike, check out the upcoming class from UI Extension Forestry. On April 26, The UI Extension ...

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.

No doubt the Cottonwood trees presence attracted the eagles to the valley in which Carson City lies, resulting in its being named Eagle Valley. As one of the major overstory trees in riparian areas of ...

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.

Winter is the perfect time to learn a new skill when you do not need a green canopy: identifying trees. Here's how to get started.

Those measurements, along with its "crown spread," make it the state's largest tree.. In comparison, the national champion eastern cottonwood in Kansas' Sheridan County is shorter, measuring 70 ...