Cottonwood

Cottonwood may refer to:

Plants

• Hibiscus tilliaceus, a flowering shrub or tree in the mallow family
• In the Populus genus, a number of difficult-to-distinguish trees:
  • Populus angustifolia (narrowleaf cottonwood), in the Great Basin
  • Populus deltoides (eastern cottonwood), in the eastern United States
  • Populus fremontii (Fremont cottonwood), in the southwestern United States and Mexico
  • Populus heterophylla (swamp cottonwood), in the eastern United States
  • Populus nigra (black poplar), in Europe, Asia, and Africa
  • Populus trichocarpa (black cottonwood), in the Pacific Northwest of North America
  • Populus x jackii (balm-of-Gilead)

Places

• Cottonwood, Alabama
• Cottonwood, Arizona
• Cottonwood, California
• Cottonwood, Colorado
• Cottonwood, Georgia, an unincorporated community in the City of Fayetteville, Georgia
• Cottonwood, Idaho
• Cottonwood Falls, Kansas
• Cottonwood, Minnesota
• Cottonwood, Coal County, Oklahoma
• Cottonwood, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma
• Cottonwood, South Dakota
• Cottonwood, Callahan County, Texas
• Cottonwood, Kaufman County, Texas
• Cottonwood West, Utah, an unincorporated area in Salt Lake County that has since become part of the cities of Holladay and Murray
• Cottonwood Heights, Utah, a city south of Cottonwood West

People

• Joe Cottonwood (b. 1947), American author of fiction and poetry for adults and children

See also

• Cottonwood River (disambiguation)
• Cottonwood Township (disambiguation)
• Cotton tree (disambiguation)