OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.

Your search found 13 taxa.

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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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camera icon speaker icon 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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camera icon speaker icon 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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speaker icon 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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camera icon speaker icon 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

 


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speaker icon 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

 


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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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camera icon 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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camera icon speaker icon 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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camera icon speaker icon 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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