§1 Plant
Salix glauca L.
vernacular grayleaf willow — species · Salicaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Salicaceae Mirb.
- Genus
- Salix
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Native
- CAN Canada Native
- GL Greenland Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Native
§2b
County-level range
· 57 counties across 7 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- Medium
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 24 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 89 min.
- Precipitation
- 8–33 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.5–8
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Multiple Stem
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 4 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 20 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Dark Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Red
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Early Summer
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Stratify
- Yes
§3e
Use & availability
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 57 counties across 7 states/territories.
Alaska view state ↗ 18 N ▾
- Aleutians East 02013
- Anchorage 02020
- Bethel 02050
- Chugach 02063
- Copper River 02066
- Denali 02068
- Dillingham 02070
- Fairbanks North Star 02090
- Kenai Peninsula 02122
- Kodiak Island 02150
- Lake and Peninsula 02164
- Matanuska-Susitna 02170
- Nome 02180
- North Slope 02185
- Northwest Arctic 02188
- Southeast Fairbanks 02240
- Yakutat 02282
- Yukon-Koyukuk 02290
Idaho view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Montana view state ↗ 4 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Utah view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Washington view state ↗ 4 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SAGL ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5372963 ↗Record version
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