Wildlife

Plains cottonwood

Populus deltoides ssp. monilifera
Habitat
Great Plains
Conservation
Secure

Only large tree reliably found by Corps between eastern forests and Rockies. Grows on bottomlands and in moist ravines.

Journal References

15 journal entries mention Plains cottonwood

Aug 3 1805
Lewis: August 3, 1805
...in the valley except a small quantity of the narrow leafed cottonwood on the verge of the river. the underwood consists of the narrowleafed or small willow, honeysuckle...
Aug 4 1805
Lewis: August 4, 1805
...is evening they encamped on the Stard. side in a bottom of cottonwood timber all much fatiegued.
Aug 10 1805
Lewis: August 10, 1805
...he country produces. there are not more than three or four cottonwood trees in this extensive cove and they are but small. the uplands are covered with prickly pears an...
Aug 11 1805
Lewis: August 11, 1805
... but few trees in this botom and those small narrow leafed Cottonwood. the principal growth is willow with the narrow leaf and Currant bushes. they encamped this evenin...
Aug 13 1805
Lewis: August 13, 1805
... bearly necessary for fuel consisting of the narrow leafed cottonwood and willow, also the red willow Choke Cherry service berry and a few currant bushes such as were c...
Aug 23 1805
Lewis: August 23, 1805
...e of well seasoned soft spongey wood such as the willow or cottonwood. the point of this arrow they apply to this dry stick so near one edge of it that the particles of...
Mar 1 1806
Clark: March 1, 1806
...ns. in the winter their food is the buds of the willow and Cottonwood also the most of the native berries furnish them with food. they cohabit in flock & the Cocks fig...
Mar 1 1806
Lewis: March 1, 1806
...e plains. in winter their food is the buds of the willow & Cottonwood also the most of the native berries furnish them with food.The Indians of this neighbourhood eat t...
Mar 25 1806
Lewis: March 25, 1806
...d which was much nearer. the bottom lands are covered with cottonwood, the growth with a broad leaf which resembles ash except the leaf. the underbrush red willow, broa...
Mar 27 1806
Lewis: March 27, 1806
...ss of drying and if so the seed will not vegitate. saw the Cottonwood, sweet willow, oak, ash and the broad leafed ash, the growth which resembles the beach &c. these f...
Mar 28 1806
Lewis: March 28, 1806
... of the island is praries and ponds, with a heavy growth of Cottonwood ash and willow near the river. we have seen more waterfowl on this island than we have previously...
Mar 30 1806
Lewis: March 30, 1806
...hich the natives call wappetoe. there is a heavy growth of Cottonwood, ash, the large leafed ash and sweet willow on most parts of this island. the black alder common o...
Apr 2 1806
Lewis: April 2, 1806
... wished. Fir is the common growth of the uplands, as is the cottonwood, ash; large leafed ash and sweet willow that of the bottom lands. the huckleburry, shallon, and t...
Apr 12 1806
Lewis: April 12, 1806
...al speceis and the white cedar. near the river we find the Cottonwood, sweet willow, broad leafed ash, a species of maple, the purple haw, a small speceis of cherry; p...
Apr 30 1806
Lewis: April 30, 1806
...old more than on the Columbia river itself. it consists of Cottonwood, birch, the crimson haw, redwillow, sweetwillow, chokecherry yellow currants, goosberry, whiteber...

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