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§1 Plant
Salix purpurea L.
vernacular purpleosier 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
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 161 counties across 23 states/territories§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 161 counties across 23 states/territories.
Colorado view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 3 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 12 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 29 I ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Cayuga 36011
- Columbia 36021
- Delaware 36025
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Genesee 36037
- Jefferson 36045
- Kings 36047
- Livingston 36051
- Madison 36053
- Nassau 36059
- Niagara 36063
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Orange 36071
- Putnam 36079
- Queens 36081
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Schenectady 36093
- Schuyler 36097
- Suffolk 36103
- Tioga 36107
- Westchester 36119
- Yates 36123
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 17 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 23 I ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bucks 42017
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Crawford 42039
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Erie 42049
- Huntingdon 42061
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lebanon 42075
- Lehigh 42077
- Mifflin 42087
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Philadelphia 42101
- Snyder 42109
- Tioga 42117
- Westmoreland 42129
Rhode Island view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 4 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SAPU2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5372800 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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