Salix
Willows, also called sallows and osiers, from the genus ''Salix'', comprise around 400 speciesMabberley, D.J. 1997. The Plant Book, Cambridge University Press #2: Cambridge. of typically deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist so ...
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Salix acutifolia
''Salix acutifolia'', also known as Siberian violet-willow, long-leaved violet willow or sharp-leaf willow, is a species of flowering plant in the family Salicaceae, native to Russia and eastern Asia. It is a spreading, deciduous shrub or tree, g ...
Salix alba
''Salix alba'', the white willow, is a species of willow native to Europe and western and central Asia.Meikle, R. D. (1984). ''Willows and Poplars of Great Britain and Ireland''. BSBI Handbook No. 4. .Rushforth, K. (1999). ''Trees of Britain an ...
Salix × ampherista
Willows, also called sallows and osiers, from the genus ''Salix'', comprise around 400 speciesMabberley, D.J. 1997. The Plant Book, Cambridge University Press #2: Cambridge. of typically deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist s ...
Salix amygdaloides
''Salix amygdaloides'', the peachleaf willow, is a species of willow native to central North America east of the Cascade Range. It can be found in southern Canada and the United States—from western British Columbia to Quebec, Idaho, Montana a ...
Salix × angusensis
Willows, also called sallows and osiers, from the genus ''Salix'', comprise around 400 speciesMabberley, D.J. 1997. The Plant Book, Cambridge University Press #2: Cambridge. of typically deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist s ...
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Salix annulifera
''Salix annulifera'' is a small shrub from the genus of the willow (''Salix'') with up to 8 centimeter long leaf blades. The natural range of the species is in China.
Description
''Salix annulifera'' is a shrub up to 50 centimeters high with th ...
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Salix anticecrenata
''Salix anticecrenata'' is a low, pillow-shaped shrub from the genus of willow (''Salix'') with about 1.5 centimeters long leaf blades. The natural range of the species is in Nepal and China.
Description
''Salix anticecrenata'' forms pillow-sh ...
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Salix apennina
''Salix apennina'', the Apennine willow, is a species of flowering plant in the family Salicaceae, native to Italy. It is a pioneer species
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Salix apoda
''Salix apoda'', the Caucasian willow (an appellation it shares with other members of its genus), is a species of flowering plant in the family Salicaceae
The Salicaceae is the willow family of flowering plants. The traditional family (Salic ...
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Salix appendiculata
''Salix appendiculata'' is a plant from the willow genus (''Salix''). They can be found in France, Italy, Central and Eastern Europe, and on the Balkan Peninsula.
Description
The large-leaved willow is a 2 to 6 meter high shrub or tree with a r ...
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Salix × arakiana
Willows, also called sallows and osiers, from the genus ''Salix'', comprise around 400 speciesMabberley, D.J. 1997. The Plant Book, Cambridge University Press #2: Cambridge. of typically deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist s ...
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Salix arbuscula
''Salix arbuscula'', the mountain willow, is a low, much branched shrub (to 0.7 metres) having a limited distribution in Northern Europe, occurring from north Scandinavia eastwards to Siberia. In Scotland it can be found on damp rocky mountain sl ...
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Salix arbusculoides
''Salix arbusculoides'' is a species of flowering plant in the willow family known by the common name little tree willow. It is native to northern North America, where its distribution extends across Alaska and most of Canada.Esser, Lora L. 199 ...
Salix arctica
''Salix arctica'', the Arctic willow, is a tiny creeping willow (family Salicaceae). It is adapted to survive in Arctic conditions, specifically tundras.
Description
''S. arctica'' is typically a low shrub growing to only in height, rarely to ...
Salix argyrocarpa
Willows, also called sallows and osiers, from the genus ''Salix'', comprise List of Salix species, around 400 speciesMabberley, D.J. 1997. The Plant Book, Cambridge University Press #2: Cambridge. of typically deciduous trees and shrubs, found ...
Salix atrocinerea
''Salix atrocinerea'', commonly called grey willow or large gray willow, is a species of willow. It is a bush or small tree up to tall. As a pioneer species of willow, it quickly colonizes poor soils.
Distribution
The grey willow distribution ...
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Salix aurita
''Salix aurita'', the eared willow, is a species of willow distributed over much of Europe, and occasionally cultivated. It is a shrub to 2.5 m in height, distinguished from the similar but slightly larger ''Salix cinerea'' by its reddish ...
Salix babylonica
''Salix babylonica'' (Babylon willow or weeping willow; ) is a species of willow native to dry areas of northern China, but cultivated for millennia elsewhere in Asia, being traded along the Silk Road to southwest Asia and Europe.Flora of China'' ...
Salix bebbiana
''Salix bebbiana'' is a species of willow indigenous to Canada and the northern United States, from Alaska and Yukon south to California and Arizona and northeast to Newfoundland and New England. Common names include beaked willow, long-beaked w ...
Salix bonplandiana
''Salix bonplandiana'' (Bonpland willow), ( es, ahuejote, ''sauce'', '' ahujote'', and ''huejote''), is a perennial species of willow tree native to southern and southwest Mexico and extending into central Guatemala; in western Mexico it is a tre ...
Salix brachycarpa
''Salix brachycarpa'' is a species of flowering plant in the willow family known by the common names barren-ground willow,Coladonato, Milo. 199''Salix brachycarpa''.In: Fire Effects Information System, nline U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA ...
Salix caprea
''Salix caprea'', known as goat willow, pussy willow or great sallow, is a common species of willow native to Europe and western and central Asia.Meikle, R. D. (1984). ''Willows and Poplars of Great Britain and Ireland''. BSBI Handbook 4. .
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Salix chilensis
''Salix chilensis'', the Chilean pencil willow, is a species of willow native to Mexico, Central America and South America, described by Molina in 1782. Some authorities consider it conspecific with ''Salix humboldtiana'', which Willdenow
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Salix cinerea
''Salix cinerea'' (common sallow, grey sallow, grey willow, grey-leaved sallow, large grey willow, pussy willow, rusty sallow) is a species of willow native to Europe and western Asia.Meikle, R. D. (1984). ''Willows and Poplars of Great Britain ...
Salix commutata
''Salix commutata'', the undergreen willow, is a plant species native to western Canada and the north-western United States. It has been reported from Alaska, Yukon, the Northwest Territories, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Montana, Ida ...
Salix cordata
''Salix cordata'', the sand dune willow, furry willow or heartleaf willow, is a perennial shrub that grows tall; plants taller than are rare. The plant is native to the northeast regions of the North American continent; it is found on sand dune ...
Salix discolor
''Salix discolor'', the American pussy willow or glaucous willow, is a species of willow native to North America, one of two species commonly called pussy willow.
It is native to the vast reaches of Alaska as well as the northern forests and we ...
Salix drummondiana
''Salix drummondiana'' is a species of willow known by the common name Drummond's willow. It is native to western North America from Yukon and the Northwest Territories in the north to California and New Mexico in the south. It is a resident of m ...
Salix eastwoodiae
''Salix eastwoodiae'' is a species of willow known by the common names mountain willow, Eastwood's willow, and Sierra willow. It was first described by Bebb in 1879 as ''Salix californica''. This name was later found to be illegitimate, as Lesq ...
Salix euxina
''Salix euxina'', the eastern crack-willow, is a species of flowering plant in the willow family Salicaceae, native from Turkey to the Caucasus. It was first described by I. V. Belyaeva in 2009. It is one of the parents of the common crack-willo ...
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Salix excelsa
''Salix excelsa'' is a species of flowering plant in the willow family Salicaceae. It is native to the Caucasus, Central Asia (except Kyrgyzstan), Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and has been introduced to the Levant, Yemen, the Himalayas, and I ...
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Salix exigua
''Salix exigua'' (sandbar willow, narrowleaf willow, or coyote willow; syn. ''S. argophylla, S. hindsiana, S. interior, S. linearifolia, S. luteosericea, S. malacophylla, S. nevadensis,'' and '' S. parishiana'') is a species of willow native to m ...
Salix farriae
Willows, also called sallows and osiers, from the genus ''Salix'', comprise around 400 speciesMabberley, D.J. 1997. The Plant Book, Cambridge University Press #2: Cambridge. of typically deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist s ...
Salix foetida
''Salix foetida'', the fishy willow, is a species of flowering plant in the family Salicaceae, native to the Alps, Pyrenees, and central Apennine Mountains of Europe. It is found only on continuously moist scree
Scree is a collection of broken ...
Salix × fragilis
''Salix'' × ''fragilis'', with the common names crack willow and brittle willow, is a hybrid species of willow native to Europe and Western Asia. It is native to riparian habitats, usually found growing beside rivers and streams, and in marsh ...
Salix futura
''Salix futura'' is a species of willow native to central Japan. It is a deciduous
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Salix glabra
''Salix argyracea'', the smooth willow, is a small shrub from the genus of willow (''Salix''). It is found in the mountainous areas of several European countries.
Description
The smooth willow is a shrub that reaches heights of up to 1.5 mete ...
Salix glauca
''Salix glauca'' is a species of flowering plant in the willow family known by the common names gray willow, grayleaf willow, white willow, and glaucous willow. It is native to North America, where it occurs throughout much of Alaska, northern ...
Salix gooddingii
''Salix gooddingii'' is a species of willow known by the common name Goodding's willow, or Goodding's black willow. It was named for its collector, Leslie Newton Goodding.
''Salix gooddingii'' is native to the southwestern United States and nor ...
Salix herbacea
''Salix herbacea'', the dwarf willow, least willow or snowbed willow, is a species of tiny creeping willow (family Salicaceae) adapted to survive in harsh arctic and subarctic environments. Distributed widely in alpine and arctic environments ar ...
Salix humboldtiana
''Salix humboldtiana'', called Humboldt's willow, is a tree species of willow native to North and South America, growing along watercourses. Some authorities consider it a synonym of '' Salix chilensis'', which Molina described in 1782. Willdeno ...
Salix integra
''Salix integra'' is a species of willow native to north-eastern China, Japan, Korea and the far south-eastern Russia (Primorsky Krai).Flora of China''Salix integra''/ref>
It is a deciduous shrub growing to 2–6 m tall with greyish-green bark a ...
Salix koriyanagi
''Salix koriyanagi'' is a species of willow
Willows, also called sallows and osiers, from the genus ''Salix'', comprise around 400 speciesMabberley, D.J. 1997. The Plant Book, Cambridge University Press #2: Cambridge. of typically deciduou ...
Salix laevigata
''Salix laevigata'', the red willow or polished willow, is a species of willow native to the southwestern United States and northern Baja California.
Biology
The red willow is a small tree up to in height. Like most other willows, it commonly ...
Salix lanata
''Salix lanata'', the woolly willow, is a subarctic species of willow native to Iceland, the Faeroe Islands and Finland, through to eastern Siberia. In Scotland it can be found in only a few localities of Perthshire, Angus and Aberdeenshire, gene ...
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Salix lapponum
''Salix lapponum'', the downy willow, is a low, much-branched shrub having a wide distribution in Northern Europe, eastwards to the Altai and western Siberia, and is found as far south as the Pyrenees and Bulgaria. In Scotland, UK, it can be fou ...
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Salix lasiandra
''Salix lucida'', the shining willow, Pacific willow, red willow, or whiplash willow, is a species of willow native to northern and western North America, occurring in wetland habitats.Jepson Flora''Salix lucida''/ref>Plants of British Columbia' ...
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Salix lasiolepis
''Salix lasiolepis'' (arroyo willow) is a species of willow native to western North America.
Distribution
The core range of the arroyo willow includes most of California, including the California Coast Ranges, Arizona, Klamath Mountains, Penin ...
Salix magnifica
''Salix magnifica'' is a species of willow in the family Salicaceae. It is endemic to Sichuan in southwestern China, where it grows at high altitudes of 2,100–3,000 m above sea level. It is threatened by habitat loss.Flora of China''Salix magni ...
Salix martiana
Willows, also called sallows and osiers, from the genus ''Salix'', comprise around 400 speciesMabberley, D.J. 1997. The Plant Book, Cambridge University Press #2: Cambridge. of typically deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist so ...
Salix microphylla
Willows, also called sallows and osiers, from the genus ''Salix'', comprise List of Salix species, around 400 speciesMabberley, D.J. 1997. The Plant Book, Cambridge University Press #2: Cambridge. of typically deciduous trees and shrubs, found ...
Salix × mollissima
Willows, also called sallows and osiers, from the genus ''Salix'', comprise around 400 speciesMabberley, D.J. 1997. The Plant Book, Cambridge University Press #2: Cambridge. of typically deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist so ...
Salix mucronata
''Salix mucronata'' (commonly called the Cape silver willow or Safsaf willow) is a tall, graceful, Semi-Deciduous willow tree. It grows along riverbanks in South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the S ...
Salix myrtilloides
''Salix myrtilloides'', the swamp willow, is a willow native to boglands in cool temperate to subarctic regions of northeastern Europe and northern Asia from central Norway and Poland eastwards to the Pacific Ocean coasts, with isolated populati ...
Salix nigra
''Salix nigra'', the black willow, is a species of willow native to eastern North America, from New Brunswick and southern Ontario west to Minnesota, and south to northern Florida and Texas.
Description
''Salix nigra'' is a medium-sized decid ...
Salix nivalis
''Salix reticulata'', the net-leaved willow, or snow willow,Sierra Nevada Wildflowers, Karen Wiese, 2nd Ed., 2013 p. 197 is a dwarf willow, native to the colder parts of Europe, North America, and Northern Asia. It is found in the western Unite ...
Salix orestera
''Salix orestera'' is a species of willow known by the common name Sierra willow, or gray-leafed Sierra willow. It is native to the Sierra Nevada of California and western Nevada, where it grows in moist areas in high mountain subalpine and alpin ...
Salix paradoxa
Willows, also called sallows and osiers, from the genus ''Salix'', comprise around 400 speciesMabberley, D.J. 1997. The Plant Book, Cambridge University Press #2: Cambridge. of typically deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist s ...
Salix pedicellaris
''Salix pedicellaris'', the bog willow, is a species of willow. It grows as a shrub.
Conservation status in the United States
It is listed as endangered in Connecticut by state authorities. It is also listed as endangered in New Jersey, Ohio, an ...
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Salix pedicellata
''Salix pedicellata'' is a species of willow. It is a shrub or small tree to about 6–8 m tall, native around the Mediterranean Sea from Portugal to Lebanon and Syria in the north and from the Canary Islands to Tunisia in the south. ''Salix ...
Salix × pendulina
''Salix babylonica'' (Babylon willow or weeping willow; ) is a species of willow native to dry areas of northern China, but cultivated for millennia elsewhere in Asia, being traded along the Silk Road to southwest Asia and Europe.Flora of China'' ...
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Salix pentandra
Willows, also called sallows and osiers, from the genus ''Salix'', comprise around 400 speciesMabberley, D.J. 1997. The Plant Book, Cambridge University Press #2: Cambridge. of typically deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist so ...
Salix petrophila
''Salix petrophila'', commonly known as alpine willow and Rocky Mountain willow, is a Northwest American mountain shrub in the willow family (Salicaceae).
Habitat and range
It can be found in the subalpine zone and alpine zone of the Sierra Ne ...
Salix phylicifolia
''Salix phylicifolia'', the tea-leaved willow, is a species of willow native to Northern Europe including Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Scandinavia, Finland, Russia, and Western Siberia. It was the first bush found on the new volcanic island of Sur ...
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Salix pierotii
''Salix pierotii'', the Korean willow, is a species of willow
Willows, also called sallows and osiers, from the genus ''Salix'', comprise around 400 speciesMabberley, D.J. 1997. The Plant Book, Cambridge University Press #2: Cambridge. of ...
Salix planifolia
''Salix planifolia'' is a species of willow known by the common names planeleaf willow, diamondleaf willow, and tea-leafed willow. It is native to northern and western North America, including most of Canada and the western United States. It grow ...
Salix pseudomonticola
Willows, also called sallows and osiers, from the genus ''Salix'', comprise List of Salix species, around 400 speciesMabberley, D.J. 1997. The Plant Book, Cambridge University Press #2: Cambridge. of typically deciduous trees and shrubs, found ...
Salix pulchra
''Salix pulchra'' is a species of flowering plant in the willow family, known by the common names diamondleaf willow, tealeaf willow, and thin red willow.Uchytil, Ronald J. 1991''Salix pulchra''.In: Fire Effects Information System, nline U.S. D ...
Salix purpurea
''Salix purpurea'', the purple willow purpleosier willow or purple osier, is a species of willow native to most of Europe and western Asia north to the British Isles, Poland, and the Baltic States.Flora Europaea''Salix purpurea''/ref>Meikle, R. D ...
Salix repens
''Salix repens'', the creeping willow, is a small, shrubby species of willow in the family Salicaceae, growing up to 1.5metres in height. Found amongst sand dunes and heathlands, it is a polymorphic species, with a wide range of variants. In ...
Salix retusa
''Salix retusa'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Salicaceae.
Description
''Salix retusa'' can reach a height of . This plant usually develops creeping stems, rarely erect. The dull green leaves are obovate, lanceolate or elliptic, ...
Salix lanata
''Salix lanata'', the woolly willow, is a subarctic species of willow native to Iceland, the Faeroe Islands and Finland, through to eastern Siberia. In Scotland it can be found in only a few localities of Perthshire, Angus and Aberdeenshire, gene ...
Salix scouleriana
''Salix scouleriana'' (Scouler's willow; syn. ''S. brachystachys'' Benth., ''S. capreoides'' Anderss., ''S. flavescens'' Nutt., ''S. nuttallii'' Sarg., ''S. stagnalis'' Nutt.) is a species of willow native to northwestern North America. Other nam ...
Salix sessilifolia
''Salix sessilifolia'' is a species of willow known by the common name northwest sandbar willow. It is native to the west coast of North America from British Columbia and the US states of Washington and Oregon. It grows on sandy and gravelly rive ...
Salix sitchensis
''Salix sitchensis'' is a species of willow known by the common name Sitka willow.
It is native to northwestern North America from Alaska to northern California to Montana.
It is a common to abundant plant in many types of coastal and inland w ...
Salix starkeana
''Salix starkeana'' is a small, prostrate shrub from the genus of willows (''Salix'') with red-brown to purple-red, bare branches and olive-green leaf tops. The natural range of the species is in Europe and in northern Asia.
Description
The pa ...
Salix triandra
''Salix triandra'', with the common names almond willow, almond-leaved willow or black maul willow, is a species of willow native to Europe and Western and Central Asia. It is found from south-eastern England east to Lake Baikal, and south to Sp ...
Salix viminalis
''Salix viminalis'', the basket willow, common osier or osier, is a species of willow native to Europe, Western Asia, and the Himalayas.Meikle, R. D. (1984). ''Willows and Poplars of Great Britain and Ireland''. BSBI Handbook No. 4. .Rushforth, K ...
Salix waldsteiniana
''Salix waldsteiniana'', the Waldstein willow, is a species of willow
Willows, also called sallows and osiers, from the genus ''Salix'', comprise around 400 speciesMabberley, D.J. 1997. The Plant Book, Cambridge University Press #2: Cambr ...
Salix
Willows, also called sallows and osiers, from the genus ''Salix'', comprise around 400 speciesMabberley, D.J. 1997. The Plant Book, Cambridge University Press #2: Cambridge. of typically deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist so ...
Salix
Willows, also called sallows and osiers, from the genus ''Salix'', comprise around 400 speciesMabberley, D.J. 1997. The Plant Book, Cambridge University Press #2: Cambridge. of typically deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist so ...