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Native Cottonwood (Wholesale Bundles) | Spring 2027
$173.00
Price breaks
| Bundles in your cart | Per bundle | Per plant |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 3 bundles | $173.00 | $6.92 |
| 4 to 11 bundles | $147.05 | $5.88 |
| 12 to 23 bundles | $129.75 | $5.19 |
| 24 bundles and up | $112.45 | $4.50 |
40 bundles or more? Email us for a quote.
Breaks count every Farm & Ranch bundle in your cart, any mix of plants.
Farm & Ranch bundles are already priced wholesale, so SAVE discount codes don't apply to them.
Reliable shipping
Only need a few? This page is wholesale, sold by the bundle. For smaller numbers, order our Cottonwood (Bundle of 2).
At a glance: Native Cottonwood is the big, fast river bottom tree of the plains, rated hardy to zone 2 in our ratings (winters to -50°F). Ships bare root. Sold here at wholesale prices, by the bundle.
| Also called | Plains cottonwood, eastern cottonwood (Populus deltoides) |
|---|---|
| Hardy to | Zone 2 on the MFTC modified cold hardiness scale (-50°F). Grows in zones 2 to 9. A bare number means the whole of zone 2, colder half included. Find your zone with our cold hardiness calculator. |
| Mature size | 50 to 100 ft tall |
| Pollination | Wind-pollinated. Trees are male or female, and females shed cotton. |
| Spacing | 12 to 20 ft apart in the row. |
| Good for | Riparian and streambank restoration, tall row of a shelterbelt on moist ground, fast shade |
| Deer | Sometimes damaged by deer. Beaver cut it. |
| What you get | Dormant bare root seedlings. 6-10 in., 10-24 in. and 2-3 ft. sizes come 25 plants to a bundle, and the 3-5 ft. size comes 20 to a bundle. Shipped from Missoula, or picked up in Missoula, in spring 2027. |
| Wholesale terms | Sold by the bundle. Mix any Farm & Ranch plants to reach a price break at 4, 12 and 24 bundles. 40 bundles or more, email us for a quote. |
Overview
Plains cottonwood is the gallery forest tree along every prairie river, and it grows several feet a year with water at its roots.
Origin & History
Native along rivers from Montana east across the plains.
Uses
Seed grown stock like this is a mix of male and female trees with natural genetic variety, which is what you want for restoration work. Old trees are prime cavity and raptor nest trees.
Growth Habit
Very large, fast, broad crowned tree. It struggles on dry upland without irrigation.
Spacing
Plant 12 to 20 ft apart. A bundle of 25 covers 300 to 500 ft of row, a bundle of 20 covers 240 to 400 ft.
Pollination
Wind-pollinated, with separate male and female trees.
Cold hardiness
We rate plains cottonwood to zone 2, winters to -50°F.
How wholesale orders work
- Bundles can't be split. Sizes under 3 ft. come 25 to a bundle, 3 ft. and taller come 20 to a bundle.
- Price breaks count every Farm & Ranch bundle in your cart, any mix of plants. 4 bundles, 12 bundles and 24 bundles each drop the price on all of them. The discount shows up in your cart on its own.
- Add to your order any time before it ships. Same shipping address, and the bundles count together toward the next price break.
- No cancellations after February 1. Cancel part of an order before then and the rest is priced at the break it still earns.
- If we come up short on a plant, you keep the price break you paid for and we refund the bundles we couldn't send.
- Our dead plant guarantee covers these the same as everything else we sell. A plant that never leafs out its first season gets a credit code for what you paid for it plus its share of the shipping. We can't break a bundle, so credit goes toward a future order, not loose replacement plants.
- Planting 40 bundles or more? Email us for a quote.
Questions we get about Native Cottonwood
How cold hardy is Native Cottonwood?
We rate it hardy to zone 2, which means winters down to about -50°F.
How far apart do I plant Native Cottonwood?
12 to 20 ft apart in a row.
What arrives, and when does it ship?
Dormant bare root seedlings by the bundle, shipped from Missoula or picked up in Missoula in spring 2027. Orders are paid in full at checkout. Our dead plant guarantee covers them the same as everything else we sell. A plant that never leafs out its first season gets a credit code for what you paid for it plus its share of the shipping.
Photos: “Populus deltoides - plains poplar” by Matt Lavin, via Flickr, licensed CC BY-SA 2.0.