Eastern Cottonwood
Populus deltoides
This tree has green deltoid leaves up to 5 inches long that turn yellow in the fall. Before leaves emerge, small male and female flowers appear on separate trees in the mid-spring.
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- Perennial
- United States
- 8.1 - Mixed Wood Plains (USA)
- 8.2 - Central USA Plains
- 9.2 - Temperate Prairies
- 9.3 - West-Central Semi-Arid Prairies
- 9.4 - South Central Semi-Arid Prairies
- 10.2 - Warm Deserts
- 11.1 - Mediterranean California
- 12.1 - Western Sierra Madre Piedmont
- 13.1 - Upper Gila Mountains
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