The Missouri Conservation Department has certified a mammoth eastern cottonwood in Kessler Park as the biggest tree in the state. ... For Kansas City’s cottonwood: 125 + 344 + 30 = 499.

OZAWKIE ? A cottonwood tree that for years had been admired as the largest in the state has taken a beating lately from Mother Nature.The tree in Cottonwood Tree Park near Ozawkie had been ...

People from all over the world visited the large cottonwood tree that had hundreds of shoes, heels, boots, clogs and sneakers nailed to it. It fell during a storm Thursday night.

TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNW) — Most Kansas students learn early that the sunflower is the state flower, the meadowlark is the state bird, and the cottonwood is the state tree.

Kansans learn from an early age that their state tree is the cottonwood, the state song is "Home on the Range" and the state ...

The multi-trunked tree, which measured in at 88 feet tall with a 108-foot canopy spread and a trunk circumference of 36 feet and nine inches, topped a cottonwood in Kansas.