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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.
Your search found 22 taxa in the family Salicaceae, Willow family, as understood by Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name: Basket Willow, Purple Willow, Purple-osier Willow
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Salix purpurea FAMILY: Salicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Salix purpurea FAMILY: Salicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Salix purpurea 051-01-001 FAMILY: Salicaceae
Habitat: Floodplain forests, streambanks, wet, disturbed areas
Waif(s)
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Weeping Willow
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Salix babylonica FAMILY: Salicaceae
INCLUDING PLANTS National Database: Salix babylonica FAMILY: Salicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Salix babylonica 051-01-002 FAMILY: Salicaceae
Habitat: Disturbed bottomlands, streambanks, roadsides, impoundments, other disturbed areas
Uncommon
Non-native: Asia
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Common Name:
Upland Willow, Prairie Willow
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Salix humilis FAMILY: Salicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Salix humilis var. humilis FAMILY: Salicaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Salix humilis 051-01-003 FAMILY: Salicaceae
Habitat: Upland areas, often in open or semi-open sites, in barrens, fens, rocky woodlands, and grassy balds over mafic rocks (such as amphibolite) up to at least 1800m elevation, also in powerline rights-of-way, woodland borders, and other miscellaneous habitats
Uncommon in Mountains & Piedmont of GA & NC (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name: Dwarf Upland Willow, Dwarf Prairie Willow, Sage Willow
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Salix occidentalis FAMILY: Salicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Salix humilis var. tristis FAMILY: Salicaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Salix humilis 051-01-003? FAMILY: Salicaceae
Habitat: Barrens, glades, rocky or hardpan woodlands, prairies, powerline rights-of-way, rarely in depression ponds, especially over mafic (such as amphibolite), ultramafic (such as olivine), or calcareous rocks
Rare in GA-NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Pussy Willow
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Salix discolor FAMILY: Salicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Salix discolor FAMILY: Salicaceae
Habitat: Calcareous wetlands, disturbed areas
Rare
Native: north of the Carolinas
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Common Name:
European White Willow
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Salix alba FAMILY: Salicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Salix alba FAMILY: Salicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Salix alba 051-01-004 FAMILY: Salicaceae
Habitat: Disturbed bottomlands, other moist to wet disturbed areas
Rare
Non-native: Eurasia
Common Name:
European Gray Willow
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Salix cinerea FAMILY: Salicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Salix cinerea FAMILY: Salicaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Salix cinerea 051-01-005 FAMILY: Salicaceae
Habitat: Streambanks, floodplains, bogs, other wet disturbed areas
Rare
Non-native: Eurasia
Common Name: Olive-leaf Willow, Common Sallow, Large Gray Willow
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Salix atrocinerea FAMILY: Salicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Salix atrocinerea FAMILY: Salicaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Salix cinerea 051-01-005? FAMILY: Salicaceae
Habitat: Disturbed areas
Rare
Non-native: western Europe
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Common Name:
Goat Willow, Great Sallow
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Salix caprea FAMILY: Salicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Salix caprea FAMILY: Salicaceae
Habitat: Bogs, streambanks, disturbed areas
Rare
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Silky Willow, Shrub Willow, Satin Willow
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Salix sericea FAMILY: Salicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Salix sericea FAMILY: Salicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Salix sericea 051-01-006 FAMILY: Salicaceae
Habitat: Bogs, fens, seeps, seepage swamps, peaty swamps, banks of small streams
Common in Carolina Mountains, uncommon in GA Mountains & SC Piedmont (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Black Willow
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Salix nigra FAMILY: Salicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Salix nigra FAMILY: Salicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Salix nigra 051-01-007 FAMILY: Salicaceae
Habitat: Riverbanks, sandbars, bottomland forests, floodplain pools, tidal swamps, impoundments, ditches, other moist areas
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name: Carolina Willow, Coastal Plain Willow
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Salix caroliniana FAMILY: Salicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Salix caroliniana FAMILY: Salicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Salix caroliniana 051-01-008 FAMILY: Salicaceae
Habitat: Riverbanks, sandbars, interdune ponds, canal banks, other wet sites
Common in Coastal Plain (uncommon to rare elsewhere)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name: Crack Willow, Brittle Willow
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Salix ×rubens FAMILY: Salicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Salix fragilis FAMILY: Salicaceae
Habitat: Low areas
Rare
Non-native hybrid: the parent species native to the Old World [S. alba × fragilis]
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Common Name:
Bigtooth Aspen, Large-toothed Aspen
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Populus grandidentata FAMILY: Salicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Populus grandidentata FAMILY: Salicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Populus grandidentata 051-02-001 FAMILY: Salicaceae
Habitat: Dry, rocky, upland forests, old fields, forest edges, mesic forests
Rare in GA-NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Eastern Cottonwood
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Populus deltoides ssp. deltoides FAMILY: Salicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Populus deltoides ssp. deltoides FAMILY: Salicaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Populus deltoides 051-02-002 FAMILY: Salicaceae
Habitat: Riverbanks, bottomland forests (not found along blackwater streams), river bars, rarely weedy in upland situations
Common (uncommon to rare in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Plains Cottonwood, Texas Cottonwood
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Populus deltoides ssp. monilifera FAMILY: Salicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Populus deltoides ssp. monilifera FAMILY: Salicaceae
Habitat: Bottomland forests, swamps, marshes, moist disturbed areas
Native: Midwest US
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Common Name:
White Poplar, Silver Poplar
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Populus alba FAMILY: Salicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Populus alba FAMILY: Salicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Populus alba 051-02-003 FAMILY: Salicaceae
Habitat: Disturbed areas, roadsides, forest edges, suburban woodlands
Uncommon (rare in GA & SC Coastal Plain)
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name: Balm-of-Gilead
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Populus ×jackii FAMILY: Salicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Populus ×jackii [balsamifera × deltoides] FAMILY: Salicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Populus candicans 051-02-004 FAMILY: Salicaceae
Habitat: Bottomlands, riverbanks, streambanks, spread from cultivation
Uncommon in NC, rare in SC
Cultivar of uncertain origin
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Common Name: Balsam Poplar, Hackmatack, Tacamahac
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Populus balsamifera FAMILY: Salicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Populus balsamifera ssp. balsamifera FAMILY: Salicaceae
Habitat: Floodplains, disturbed areas. Occurring further north in a variety of habitats such as depressions, drainages, river bottoms, spruce-aspen forests, or on well-drained sites atop glacial deposits
Rare
Native: north of the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name: Swamp Cottonwood
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Populus heterophylla FAMILY: Salicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Populus heterophylla FAMILY: Salicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Populus heterophylla 051-02-005 FAMILY: Salicaceae
Habitat: Blackwater and brownwater swamp forests, tidal swamp forests, depression ponds, interdune ponds
Common in Carolina Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Quaking Aspen
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Populus tremuloides FAMILY: Salicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Populus tremuloides FAMILY: Salicaceae
Habitat: Heath balds, rocky woodlands, exposed rock outcrops, clearings, floodplains
Rare
Native to North Carolina?
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Common Name:
European Black Poplar, Lombardy Poplar, Black Poplar
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Populus nigra FAMILY: Salicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Populus nigra FAMILY: Salicaceae
Habitat: Disturbed suburban areas
Waif(s)
Non-native: southern Europe
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