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Cottonwood cotton
Populus trichocarpa
45.5235, -122.676
Field Notes
Description:
tiny seeds are floated in a fluff of cottony white; there are drifts of them along the roadsides by the river. Leaves flash a white underside in the wind.
Habitat:
on the bank of a slough of the Columbia (at the site of Vanport, a wetland). They like to have their "feet wet".
Notes:
European naturalists called it "balm of Gilead" when they first saw it on the Columbia
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