NameThatPlant.net: Salix caprea

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Malpighiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Salix caprea FAMILY Salicaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

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The twigs of Goat Willow are smooth (vs. with obvious ridges an inch or more long in S. cinerea and S. atrocinerea). Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Salix caprea FAMILY Salicaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Salix caprea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 7 (2010)

Salix caprea

COMMON NAME:
Goat Willow, Great Sallow

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image of Salix caprea, Goat Willow, Great Sallow

Ron Lance rwl_salix_caprea

May Jackson County NC

Big Ridge Preserve

Leaves, likely widest of the willows, glaucous beneath, w revolute margins, per Trees of the Southeastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1988).

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Salix caprea FAMILY Salicaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Salix caprea FAMILY Salicaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Salix caprea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 7
Salix caprea

2581

Shrub; Tree
Perennial
Dioecious

Habitat: bogs, streambanks, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: Eurasia

Rare

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CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.

LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring
Sepals absent
Petals absent
Superior ovary
Unisexual

Flowers in catkins, inflorescence usually erect

FRUIT:
Spring
Capsule

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