In a single day, one Fremont cottonwood drinks more water than a huge saguaro cactus would need for several lifetimes. Stark evidence of this thirst can be found in small desert creeks that flow ...

The bark of older trees is deeply furrowed. The Fremont cottonwood (Populus fremontii), also known as the western cottonwood or the Rio Grande cottonwood, occurs in California east to Utah and ...

The Fremont Cottonwoods along the San Diego River ... including along the Sweetwater River near Cottonwood Golf Course, and in Cottonwood Valley, east of Pine Valley along Interstate 8.

Fremont Cottonwood Trees along the San Diego River in Mission Gorge will show off their best iridescent green foliage this month. The Old Mission Dam parking area on Father Junípero Serra Trail ...

And he found it: a Fremont cottonwood sapling, thin but sturdy, with flowing leaves shaped like spades from a deck of cards. It was sprouting from the foot of a tilting older cottonwood tree ...

While the leaves of all cottonwood varieties have alternating flat stems, black cottonwood leaves are more oval-like. Comparatively, the leaves of eastern and Fremont varieties are triangular. Fremont ...

There are three main species are Populus deltoids (eastern cottonwood), Populus fremontii (Fremont’s cottonwood), and the Populus nigra (black poplar). They can grow to be 80 feet tall and do ...

Even in dry years like this one, the creek corridor is alive with greenery. Massive Fremont cottonwood trees sway above a meandering strip of willows, oaks, wild roses, reeds, canyon grape vines ...

CaliforniaFallColor says leaf peepers will find “black oak, Fremont cottonwood and pockets of aspen providing orange, buff, gold and yellow splashes of color among deep green pines.” ...