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

United States

  • 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
  • Cottonwood, Idaho, a city
  • Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, a city
  • Cottonwood, Minnesota, a city
  • Alamogordo, New Mexico, a city named for the great number of very large cottonwood trees in the area; the name means "fat cottonwood" in Spanish
  • Cottonwood, Coal County, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community
  • Cottonwood, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community
  • Cottonwood, South Dakota, a town
  • Alamo, Texas, a city named for the Alamo Mission; the name means "cottonwood" in Spanish
  • 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

Canada

  • Cottonwoods, Manitoba, an unincorporated community

People

  • Eli Cottonwood, ring name of the 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
  • "Cottonwood", a 2025 song by Twenty One Pilots from Breach

See also

  • Cottonwood Island (disambiguation)
  • Cottonwood Lake (disambiguation)
  • Cottonwood River (disambiguation)
  • Cottonwood Township (disambiguation)
  • Cotton tree (disambiguation)
  • Alamo (disambiguation); cottonwood in Spanish is álamo