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§1 Plant
Salix monticola Bebb
vernacular park 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
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 41 counties across 3 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- Low
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -38 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 88 min.
- Precipitation
- 8–18 in/yr
- pH range
- 5–7
- Root depth
- 36 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Thicket Forming
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 12 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 18 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- Yes
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Rapid
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 2,500,000
- Propagation
- seed, cuttings, container, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Fuelwood
- High
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 41 counties across 3 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 31 N ▾
- Alamosa 08003
- Archuleta 08007
- Boulder 08013
- Chaffee 08015
- Clear Creek 08019
- Custer 08027
- Delta 08029
- Dolores 08033
- Douglas 08035
- Eagle 08037
- El Paso 08041
- Garfield 08045
- Gilpin 08047
- Grand 08049
- Gunnison 08051
- Huerfano 08055
- Jackson 08057
- Lake 08065
- Larimer 08069
- Mesa 08077
- Mineral 08079
- Montezuma 08083
- Montrose 08085
- Park 08093
- Pitkin 08097
- Rio Blanco 08103
- Routt 08107
- San Juan 08111
- San Miguel 08113
- Summit 08117
- Teller 08119
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SAMO2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5372897 ↗Record version
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