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Sand-Bar Willow |
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Sandbar Willow |
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Coyote Willow |
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Narrowleaf Willow |
Salix interior | Accepted |
Salix exigua var. exterior | Synonym |
Salix exigua var. pedicellata | Synonym |
Salix exigua f. wheeleri | Synonym |
Salix exigua var. sericans | Synonym |
Plant Habit: | Shrub Tree |
Sun Requirements: | Full Sun Full Sun to Partial Shade |
Water Preferences: | Wet Wet Mesic |
Soil pH Preferences: | Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5) Neutral (6.6 – 7.3) |
Minimum cold hardiness: | Zone 2 -45.6 °C (-50 °F) to -42.8 °C (-45°F) |
Maximum recommended zone: | Zone 8b |
Plant Height: | 6 to 8 feet, occasionally to 20 feet, even rarely 30 feet |
Leaves: | Deciduous |
Fruit: | Edible to birds |
Flowers: | Inconspicuous |
Flower Color: | Green Yellow |
Flower Time: | Spring Late spring or early summer |
Underground structures: | Rhizome |
Dynamic Accumulator: | Mg (Magnesium) |
Resistances: | Flood Resistant |
Propagation: Seeds: | Sow in situ |
Propagation: Other methods: | Cuttings: Stem Stolons and runners |
Pollinators: | Wind |
Miscellaneous: | Tolerates poor soil Dioecious |
Conservation status: | Least Concern (LC) |
Posted by ILPARW (southeast Pennsylvania - Zone 6b) on Jul 10, 2019 10:33 AM Sanbar Willow is usually a little-branched upright shrub about 8 feet high, but it infrequently can be a small tree 20 to 30 feet with a trunk 3 to 6 inches in diameter. It has the narrowest leaves of about all willows that are 2 to 6 inches long by 1/8th to 3/8th inches wide. These linear leaves have small, distinct teeth on the margins widely spaced apart from each other. The top of the leaves are medium green and the bottoms a little lighter green. Being dioecious like other willow, the male catkins are about 1 to 2 inches long, narrowly cylindrical, with no petals or sepals, but with prominent yellow stamen. The female catkins are 1.5 to 3 inches long and mostly green, turning brownish later. This species keeps putting out catkins later than other willows, into Late June or July. It has a large native range from Louisiana & east Texas & Mississippi to most of Montana to the west and to West Virginia and to New England on the east, then up Canada into central Alaska, growing in wet places. It is a common shrub willow species in much of its range. It spreads by underground runners to form a colony. A few native plant nurseries sell some. [ Reply to this comment | |
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