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Kentucky Color: Eastern Cottonwood By Billy Joe Fudge Libby and I recently celebrated our only Great-granddaughter Hazel Dettlinger's first birthday in Peoria, Illinois. Peoria sits on each side of the Illinois River about 160 miles North of its confluence with the mighty Mississippi at Saint Louis, Missouri. The floodplain the River creates across the Tallgrass Prairie of Central Illinois in many areas is a marshy, bottomland hardwood forest. Bottomland hardwoods typically love deep, rich and moist soils and can usually withstand temporary flooding. Most of these bottomland species can live and grow on upland sites but do not thrive there. Eastern Cottonwood is a typical anchor species in many bottomland hardwood ecosystems including the upper Cumberland, Barren and Green Rivers right here in the Great Wooded South. When my family moved to Harvey's Ridge in 1956, there were two large Eastern Cottonwoods in our front yard. They were most likely brought transplanted from Rock Lick Creek or Pettit's Fork Creek. This story was posted on 2026-08-18 09:54:05
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