Does anyone know the name of the tree that produces the "fuzzies" that look like dandelions?

Question

There are so many of them that it looks like snow.

Answer 1

is it eastern cotton wood ?

click the link for an image =

http://www.lightblog.com/member/premenop...

Cotton wood has scientific name Populus = there are several species = almost all of them have cottony seeds =

one more =

http://fireflyforest.net/images/firefly/...

http://www.uwgb.edu/biodiversity/herbari...

which one you have encountered is difficult to surmise

Answer 2

It sounds like cottonwood to me.

I remember a story about someone who parked a car under a slippery elm and downwind from a cottonwood at a time of year when both were doing their respective things. He wound up driving something that looked like a sheep.

Answer 3

I'll add my vote for cottonwood.  

The third answer gives some other trees that do produce "fuzzies"; but for snow-drift volumes of the stuff, it's got to be a cottonwood.

Answer 4

It could be poplar or willow.

poplar

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7406844@N06...

willow

http://www.flickr.com/photos/86953562@N0...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/86953562@N0...