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§1 Plant
Salix candida Flueggé ex Willd.
vernacular sageleaf willow — species · Salicaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Salicaceae Mirb.
- Genus
- Salix
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Native
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Native
§2b
County-level range
· 224 counties across 21 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- Medium
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -33 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 120 min.
- Precipitation
- 24–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.7–7.6
- Root depth
- 18 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Multiple Stem
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 6 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 6 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Green
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Propagation
- seed, cuttings, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 224 counties across 21 states/territories.
Alaska view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 41 N ▾
- Alcona 26001
- Alger 26003
- Allegan 26005
- Baraga 26013
- Barry 26015
- Bay 26017
- Benzie 26019
- Berrien 26021
- Calhoun 26025
- Cass 26027
- Charlevoix 26029
- Cheboygan 26031
- Chippewa 26033
- Clinton 26037
- Delta 26041
- Emmet 26047
- Genesee 26049
- Grand Traverse 26055
- Ingham 26065
- Ionia 26067
- Iosco 26069
- Jackson 26075
- Kalamazoo 26077
- Kent 26081
- Lapeer 26087
- Leelanau 26089
- Lenawee 26091
- Livingston 26093
- Mackinac 26097
- Macomb 26099
- Manistee 26101
- Montcalm 26117
- Montmorency 26119
- Muskegon 26121
- Oakland 26125
- Presque Isle 26141
- Schoolcraft 26153
- St. Clair 26147
- St. Joseph 26149
- Van Buren 26159
- Washtenaw 26161
Minnesota view state ↗ 44 N ▾
- Anoka 27003
- Becker 27005
- Beltrami 27007
- Cass 27021
- Chippewa 27023
- Clay 27027
- Clearwater 27029
- Crow Wing 27035
- Dakota 27037
- Dodge 27039
- Goodhue 27049
- Hennepin 27053
- Hubbard 27057
- Isanti 27059
- Itasca 27061
- Kandiyohi 27067
- Kittson 27069
- Koochiching 27071
- Lake 27075
- Lake of the Woods 27077
- Mahnomen 27087
- Marshall 27089
- Morrison 27097
- Nicollet 27103
- Norman 27107
- Olmsted 27109
- Otter Tail 27111
- Pennington 27113
- Pine 27115
- Polk 27119
- Pope 27121
- Ramsey 27123
- Red Lake 27125
- Rice 27131
- Roseau 27135
- Scott 27139
- Sherburne 27141
- St. Louis 27137
- Wabasha 27157
- Wadena 27159
- Washington 27163
- Wilkin 27167
- Wright 27171
- Yellow Medicine 27173
Montana view state ↗ 4 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 5 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 30 N ▾
- Cayuga 36011
- Chemung 36015
- Columbia 36021
- Cortland 36023
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Fulton 36035
- Genesee 36037
- Herkimer 36043
- Jefferson 36045
- Lewis 36049
- Livingston 36051
- Madison 36053
- Monroe 36055
- New York 36061
- Onondaga 36067
- Ontario 36069
- Oswego 36075
- Otsego 36077
- Queens 36081
- Richmond 36085
- Saratoga 36091
- Schoharie 36095
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Steuben 36101
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Westchester 36119
North Dakota view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 4 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Washington view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Wyoming view state ↗ 3 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SACA4 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5372888 ↗Record version
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