English
narrowleaf cottonwood
Scientific Name
Populus angustifolia
Arapaho
Translation of the Arapaho
‘tree-like/cottonwood-like aspen’
Narrowleaf Cottonwood and the Arapaho
Ferdinand Hayden identifies the tree of this name as “bitter cottonwood." The Gros Ventre consider the aspen to be the prototypical tree, with the cottonwood being a ‘false aspen.’ Something similar appears to be the case here for the 19th-century Arapaho.
