Cottonwood
Rating: 2
Size: 120 ft tall
Shade: very shady
Type: softwood, fast growing
The fremont cottonwood is perhaps the largest native Utah tree. Its broad crown averages 70 ft and it can grow as high as 120 ft tall. The massive trunks and limbs of this tree as well as the floating cottonseeds are what make this tree memorable. Growing along rivers and waterways, the cottonwood is home to eagles and other wildlife throughout Utah.
As far as homeonwers are concerned, a cottonwood is usually too big of a tree and too messy of a tree for their liking, that is unless they live on a large piece of land.