Illinois’ state champion Eastern cottonwood, the largest in the state, is in the Byron Forest Preserve near Mount Morris, about 100 miles west of downtown Chicago.

The eastern cottonwood tree (eastern poplar or populus deltoides) can grow from 70-100 feet tall, according to Michigan's Department of Natural Resources, and they prefer to grow in wetlands and ...

Chicago has been inundated with white fluffy stuff over the past few weeks. It isn’t snow. The fluff is from female eastern cottonwood trees. The tree’s seeds are blanketed by thin white floss ...

Previously, the largest known eastern cottonwood tree was in Beatrice. This one along Pibel Lake beat it as the largest in the state and in the nation.

In our drought, cottonwood seeds are highly flammable. According to the Times Union, in Schenectady, New York on June 2, 2023, a cigarette set fire to cottonwood seeds and thus, calling the fire ...

The national champion eastern cottonwood breaks the horizon between Hickory Road and Hackberry in Gage County. On the east side of Bear Creek. On Kevin Naber’s land. Naber is a retired farm ...

In our drought, cottonwood seeds are highly flammable. According to the Times Union, in Schenectady, New York, on June 2, 2023, a cigarette set fire to cottonwood seeds and the fire department had ...

Cottonwood seeds cover the edge of the grass at a home on Wednesday, June 18, 2025, in East Lansing.© Nick King/Lansing State Journal An Eastern cottonwood tree posted on the University of ...

WHEELER COUNTY, Neb. (KOLN) - Pibel Lake Recreation Area is home to the Lower Loup Natural Resource District, geese and as of February 2025, the largest known cottonwood tree in Wheeler County.