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More Wind-Blown Cottony Seed Photos

During late spring and early summer in the western United States, the seeds of female Fremont cottonwoods (Populus fremontii) are shed in dense, fluffy masses. Each minute seed has a tuft of silky white hairs. In riparian habitats with abundant cottonwoods, fluffy masses of seeds blow into the wind and carpet the ground like newly fallen snow.

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