Salix alba

• BOTANICAL NAME: Salix alba
• COMMON NAME: White Willow
• FAMILY: Salicaceae
• NATIVITY: Central Europe and Asia
• GROWTH HABIT:  75-100’
• HARDINESS:  USDA Zone 2 to 8 (9)
• OPTIMUM GROWING CONDITIONS:  Wet, moist areas, found along stream banks and in well-saturated soils.
• SUCCESSIONAL STATUS:  Successional
• FACULTATIVE STATUS:  Facultative Wetland
• LANDSCAPE VALUE:  Grows extremely well in wet areas and can stabilize stream banks and wet soils.
• FOLIAGE: Fine textured; Alternate, simple, on long yellow cascading branches.
• BUDS:  Buds are small and pushed up against the stem, smooth.
• BARK:  Peely, rigid, furrowed bark
• FRUIT:  Silky tufts in two-valved capsules
• PESTS:  Crown gall, leaf blight