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SALICACEAE - - Willow Family
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Eastern Cottonwood (Populus deltoides) - Tree with widely branched trunk, becoming 40 m. tall, the twigs dark; leaf blades deltoid to ovate-deltoid, 8—15 cm. long, or longer, acute or short-acuminate, serrate or crenate-serrate, nearly or quite to the petiole, usually with two prominent basal-glands; staminate aments 8—12 cm. long; stamens numerous; capsule 8—10 mm. long.
Riverbanks, bottomland forests (not found along blackwater streams), river bars, rarely weedy in upland situations.
Habitat information from:
Weakley, Alan S., Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States, Working Draft of 21 May 2015.
The range of Populus deltoides (Eastern Cottonwood)
Kartesz, J.T., The Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2015. North American Plant Atlas. (http://bonap.net/napa). Chapel Hill, N.C. [maps generated from Kartesz, J.T. 2015. Floristic Synthesis of North America, Version 1.0. Biota of North America Program (BONAP). (in press)].
The Georgia range of Populus deltoides (Eastern Cottonwood)
Zomlefer, W.B., J.R. Carter, & D.E. Giannasi. 2014 (and ongoing). The Atlas of Georgia Plants. University of Georgia Herbarium (Athens, Georgia) and Valdosta State University Herbarium (Valdosta, Georgia). Available at: http://www.georgiaherbaria.org/.
Guide to the Trees of North Georgia and Adjacent States
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