Pat Nabong / Sun-Times Share Chicago has been inundated with white fluffy stuff over the past few weeks. It isn’t snow. The fluff is from female eastern cottonwood trees. The tree’s seeds are ...

If you’ve been outside lately, you may have noticed white fluff drifting through the air. That’s cottonwood—and it’s making ...

Those big white fluffs floating everywhere? Pollen. Wait’ll you see the bees. We kid! Cottonwood fluff ― from cottonwood trees, females — is just so common this time of year, most of us ...

Fluffy cottonwood seeds are floating through Rockford's air, leaving a soft trail that’s catching many residents by surprise ...

Snow in June — it happens every year. This snow, though, is made up of the fluffy cotton-like seeds that float off cottonwood ...

Staff The Bellingham Herald file If you walked outside in Bellingham last weekend, chances are you were greeted by a few flurries of white fluff. The fluff, which comes from cottonwood trees ...

The name comes from the fluffy white cotton-like covering ... The bark of older trees is deeply furrowed. The Fremont cottonwood (Populus fremontii), also known as the western cottonwood or ...

This “white fluff” is seeds from the poplar, aspen and cottonwood trees, not pollen. Allergenic pollen is not visible to the naked eye. The pollen, released earlier, mates with the appropriate ...

NORMAL — Blowing cottonwood tree fluff ignited by a stray cigarette butt sent flames skipping across some yards Thursday in northeast Normal, damaging the corner of one house, the back porch of ...

fluffy white seeds from cottonwood trees. These seeds, a hallmark of late spring, are now making their annual appearance, creating picturesque scenes at local parks and along city streets.

Between the warm weather and healthy amounts of rain that the Bozeman area has seen, the entire town is completely covered in ...