| Author | (Hooker) Moquin-Tandon | |
| Distribution | Mostly in the Sandhills and southern Coastal Plain; scattered northwards and northwestwards in the Piedmont and Mountains. First collected in 1958 in Ashe, Stokes, and Forsyth counties; then in 1970 in New Hanover County. It appears to be expanding its distribution in NC since the mid-1980s.
Native of middle portions of the U.S. (west of the Appalachians); adventive eastwards from NH to FL. | |
| Abundance | Infrequent in the Sandhills and southern Coastal Plain; rare in the Piedmont and Mountains, and elsewhere in the Coastal Plain. | |
| Habitat | Dry to xeric sandy soils of roadsides, railroad margins, disturbed bay rims, fields, trailsides, waste ground, parking lots. | |
| Phenology | Flowering and fruiting June-October. | |
| Identification | Slender Cottonweed resembles the native-in-NC Florida Cottonweed (F. floridana), but is a shorter plant with widely spreading to ascending stems, branching from the base. Both species have very odd "papery-looking" narrow clusters of whitish flowers terminating branches and the main stem. | |
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| State Rank | SE * | |
| Global Rank | G5 | |
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