Cottonwood

Cottonwood or cotton wood may refer to:

Plants

• Celtis conferta subsp. amblyphylla, a tree in the hemp and hackberry family
• Hibiscus tiliaceus , a flowering shrub or tree in the mallow family
• In the genus Populus , a number of difficult-to-distinguish trees:
  • Populus angustifolia (narrowleaf cottonwood), in the Great Basin
  • Populus balsamifera (balsam cottonwood), in Canada and parts of northern United States
  • Populus heterophylla (swamp cottonwood), in the eastern United States
  • Populus trichocarpa (black cottonwood), in the Pacific Northwest of North America
  • Populus x jackii (balm-of-Gilead)
  • Populus × acuminata, lanceleaf cottonwood,
  • Populus sect. Aigeiros, a section of three species
    • Populus deltoides (eastern cottonwood), in eastern, central, and southwestern United States, and parts of Canada and Mexico
    • Populus fremontii (Fremont cottonwood), in the southwestern United States and Mexico
    • Populus nigra (black poplar), in Europe, Asia, and Africa

Places

• Cottonwoods, Manitoba, an unincorporated community in Manitoba, Canada

United States

• 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
• Cottonwood, Alabama, a town
• Cottonwood, Arizona, a city
• Cottonwood, California, a census-designated place in Shasta County
• Cottonwood, Yolo County, California, a ghost town
• Cottonwood, Colorado, a neighborhood in the town of Parker
• Cottonwood, Georgia, an unincorporated community in the City of Fayetteville, Georgia
• Cottonwood, Idaho, a city
• Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, a city
• Cottonwood, Minnesota, a city
• Cottonwood, Coal County, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community
• Cottonwood, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community
• Cottonwood, South Dakota, a town
• Cottonwood, Callahan County, Texas, an unincorporated community
• Cottonwood, Kaufman County, Texas, a city
• 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
• 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
• Joe Cottonwood (born 1947), American author of fiction and poetry

Other uses

• Cottonwood Limestone, a geologic member of limestone in Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma
• Cottonwood (EP), a 2019 EP by NLE Choppa

See also

• Cottonwood Island (disambiguation)
• Cottonwood Lake (disambiguation)
• Cottonwood River (disambiguation)
• Cottonwood Township (disambiguation)
• Cotton tree (disambiguation)
• Alamo (disambiguation), Cottonwood is known in Spanish as álamo