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§1 Plant

Salix humilis Marshall var. tristis (Aiton) Griggs

vernacular prairie willow — variety · Salicaceae


USDA
SAHUT
GBIF
5582157
Rank
variety
prairie willow (Salix humilis var. tristis)
Platephotograph · Robert WernerehlCC BY-NC-SA source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Shrub
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Salicaceae Mirb.
Genus
Salix
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 234 counties across 22 states/territories
Legend Native · 234 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 234 counties across 22 states/territories.

Delaware view state ↗ 1 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Illinois view state ↗ 7 N
Indiana view state ↗ 20 N
Iowa view state ↗ 1 N
Kansas view state ↗ 1 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 25 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 1 N
Maryland view state ↗ 9 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 13 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 2 N
Missouri view state ↗ 12 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 19 N
New York view state ↗ 13 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 N
Ohio view state ↗ 25 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 26 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 25 N
Vermont view state ↗ 1 N
Virginia view state ↗ 20 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 10 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 1 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/SAHUT ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/5582157 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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