General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Shrub
Tree
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: In Water
Wet
Wet Mesic
Mesic
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Slightly alkaline (7.4 – 7.8)
Leaves: Deciduous
Fruit: Edible to birds
Fruiting Time: Late spring or early summer
Flowers: Showy
Inconspicuous
Flower Time: Late winter or early spring
Spring
Uses: Windbreak or Hedge
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Other Beneficial Insects: caterpillars and other larvae, many insects
Resistances: Flood Resistant
Propagation: Seeds: Days to germinate: about 1 day
Sow in situ
Other info: no dormancy know in any willow species
Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Stem
Pollinators: Bumblebees
Bees
Various insects
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil
Dioecious

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Common names
  • Willow
  • Osier

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Location: Calf Creek, southern Utah
Date: 2015-02-22
Location: Wuda Ogwa, Winder, Idaho, United States
Date: 2023-11-04
Still holding on to some of its leaves.
Location: Calf Creek, southern Utah
Date: 2015-02-22
Location: Calf Creek, southern Utah
Date: 2015-02-22
Location: Calf Creek, southern Utah
Date: 2015-02-22
Location: Thorndale, Pennsylvania
Date: 2015-07-14
mature Golden Weeping Willow (S. alba 'Tristis')
Location: French Creek State Park in southeast Pennsylvania
Date: 2014-10-26
Black Willow at lake shore
Location: Twisp
Location: Marsh Creek Lake, Pennsylvania
Date: 2018-01-18
Black Willows along lake
Location: Twisp
Date: December
Location: Thorndale, Pennsylvania
Date: 2011-08-16
Black Willow (Salix nigra) leaves
Location: northwest Pennsylvania
Date: 2017-09-10
American Pussy Willow shrubs in the wild
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2016-01-30
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2015-03-26
At winter's end, branchs csn be cut  to take inside , planed in w
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2015-04-02
Location: Twisp
Date: 2015-08-02
Location: Fairfax, VA | June, 2022
Date: 2022-06-13
Location: NC| June, 2022
Date: 2022-06-14
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2015-03-22

Date: 2016-03-14
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2016-02-22
First sign of spring approaching noted in my area this year...
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2015-08-30
Location: Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Date: 2016-06-01
Sanbar Willow flowers
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2016-01-30
Location: Twisp
Date: December
Location: Silver Lake, Brighton, Utah, United States
Date: 2017-06-05
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2015-03-31
Location: Johnston Canyon, Banff, Canada | August, 2022
Date: 2022-08-02
Location: Brighton, Utah, United States
Date: 2017-09-08
Location: Little Cottonwood Canyon, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States
Date: 2016-09-10
Location: Jasper, Canada | August, 2022
Date: 2022-08-05
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Comments:
  • Posted by ILPARW (southeast Pennsylvania - Zone 6b) on Dec 12, 2018 4:16 PM concerning plant:
    Salix is the Latin name for this genus of woody plants. There are about 300 species of deciduous trees and shrubs being Willows, native across the Northern Hemisphere. They are usually fast growing with soft wood. Their alternate leaves are lance-shaped and longer than wide. Their tiny flowers are borne in dense, fuzzy catkins that appear before the leaves or with young leaves and are pollinated by bees and some other insects. Separate male and female catkins are borne on separate plants so that they are dioecious. The fruit is a small , 2-valved capsule that contains many minute hairy seeds that float in the wind a good distance in late spring or early summer. The relatively large buds are covered by one scale. The smooth, flexible twigs are used for basket weaving. Aspirin was originally derived from the brown bark. Willows grow wild in moist to wet soils in full sunshine, as many other woody plants out-compete them anywhere else, and they stabilize the banks of watercourses. Some species are very common and easily recognized in bottomlands, swamps, and floodplains; but, there are quite a number of less common species that are difficult to tell apart. Willows are hosts to hundreds of beneficial insect species that feed some on the foliage, bark, or flower nectar. Some are grown as ornamental trees and shrubs. Willows are easy to propagate from stem cuttings that root in water.
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