Cottonwood or cotton wood may refer to:
Plants
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''Celtis conferta'' subsp. ''amblyphylla'', a tree in the hemp and hackberry family
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Hibiscus tiliaceus'', a flowering shrub or tree in the mallow family
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Populus
''Populus'' is a genus of 25–30 species of deciduous flowering plants in the family Salicaceae, native to most of the Northern Hemisphere. English names variously applied to different species include poplar (), aspen, and cottonwood.
The we ...
'', a number of difficult-to-distinguish trees:
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Populus angustifolia
''Populus angustifolia'', commonly known as the narrowleaf cottonwood, is a species of tree in the willow family (Salicaceae). It is native to western North America, where it is a characteristic species of the Rocky Mountains and the surrounding ...
'' (narrowleaf cottonwood), in the Great Basin
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Populus balsamifera'' (balsam cottonwood), in Canada and parts of northern United States
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Populus heterophylla'' (swamp cottonwood), in the eastern United States
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Populus trichocarpa
''Populus trichocarpa'', the black cottonwood, western balsam-poplar or California poplar, is a deciduous broadleaf tree species native to western North America. It is used for timber, and is notable as a model organism in plant biology. The tr ...
'' (black cottonwood), in the Pacific Northwest of North America
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''Populus'' x ''jackii'' (balm-of-Gilead)
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''Populus'' × ''acuminata'', lanceleaf cottonwood,
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''Populus'' sect. ''Aigeiros'', a section of three species
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Populus deltoides'' (eastern cottonwood), in eastern, central, and southwestern United States, and parts of Canada and Mexico
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Populus fremontii'' (Fremont cottonwood), in the southwestern United States and Mexico
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Populus nigra
''Populus nigra'', the black poplar, is a species of Populus sect. Aigeiros, cottonwood poplar, the type species of section ''Aigeiros'' of the genus ''Populus'', native to Europe, southwest and central Asia, and northwest Africa.Flora Europaea' ...
'' (black poplar), in Europe, Asia, and Africa
Places
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Cottonwoods, Manitoba, an unincorporated community in Manitoba, Canada
United States
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Alamogordo, New Mexico, a city, US, the name of which means "fat cottonwood" in Spanish for the great number of very large cottonwood trees in the area
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Cottonwood, Alabama, a town
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Cottonwood, Arizona, a city
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Cottonwood, California
Cottonwood is a census-designated place (CDP) in Shasta County, California, United States. Its population is 6,268 as of the 2020 census, up from 3,316 from the 2010 census. Cottonwood was a stagecoach town where a settlement was established ...
, a census-designated place in Shasta County
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Cottonwood, Yolo County, California, a ghost town
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Cottonwood, Colorado, a neighborhood in the town of Parker
* Cottonwood, Georgia, an unincorporated community in the City of
Fayetteville, Georgia
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Cottonwood, Idaho
Cottonwood is a city in Idaho County, Idaho. On the Camas Prairie in north central Idaho, the population was 822 at the 2020 census, down from 900 in 2010 and 944 in 2000. It is just west of U.S. Route 95, between Grangeville and Lewist ...
, a city
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Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, a city
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Cottonwood, Minnesota, a city
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Cottonwood, Coal County, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community
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Cottonwood, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community
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Cottonwood, South Dakota, a town
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Cottonwood, Callahan County, Texas, an unincorporated community
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Cottonwood, Kaufman County, Texas, a city
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Cottonwood West, Utah, an unincorporated area in Salt Lake County that has since become part of the cities of Holladay and Murray
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Cottonwood Heights, Utah, a city south of Cottonwood West
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Alamo, Texas, a city in Texas, US, the name of which means "Cottonwood tree" in Spanish/Mexican
People
* Eli Cottonwood, ring name of professional wrestler Kipp Christianson formerly from
WWE's NXT
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Joe Cottonwood (born 1947), American author of fiction and poetry
Other uses
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Cottonwood Limestone, a geologic member of limestone in Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma
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''Cottonwood'' (EP), a 2019 EP by NLE Choppa
See also
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Cottonwood Island (disambiguation)
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Cottonwood Lake (disambiguation)
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Cottonwood River (disambiguation)
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Cottonwood Township (disambiguation)
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Cotton tree (disambiguation)
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Alamo (disambiguation), Cottonwood is known in Spanish as álamo
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