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Salix cinerea (common sallow, grey sallow, grey willow, grey-leaved sallow, large grey willow, pussy willow, rusty sallow [2]) is a species of willow native to Europe and western Asia. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The plant provides a great deal of nectar for pollinators .
The grey willow lives in freshly disturbed land, with preference for acidic soil, but this is a very hardy species and is even found on beaches near the sea and on islands. It grows in sandy or gravel shores of rivers, streams and ponds, meadows, valleys and hedgerows with some soil moisture, and is found from sea level to 2,000 m altitude, to ...
Grey willow or gray willow may refer to: Salix atrocinerea, a species of willow native to Europe commonly called grey willow; Salix cinerea, a species of willow native to Europe and western Asia, also occasionally called grey sallow; Salix glauca, a species of willow native to northern North America, Europe and Asia
Salix barclayi Andersson – Barclay's willow; Salix barrattiana Hook. – Barratt's willow; Salix bebbiana Sarg. – beaked willow; Salix berberifolia Pall. Salix bhutanensis; Salix bicolor Ehrh. ex Willd. Salix bikouensis Y.L.Chou; Salix blakii Goerz; Salix blinii H.Lév. Salix bonplandiana Kunth – Bonpland willow, ahuejote; Salix boothii ...
The willow is one of the four species associated with the Jewish festival of Sukkot, or the Feast of Tabernacles, cited in Leviticus 23:40. Willow branches are used during the synagogue service on Hoshana Rabbah, the seventh day of Sukkot. In Buddhism, a willow branch is one of the chief attributes of Guanyin, the bodhisattva of compassion.
Salix glaucosericea, common name silky willow or Alpine grey willow, is a species of flowering plant in the Salicaceae family. Some authorities consider it a synonym of Salix glauca var. villosa , which is found in western North America.
Salix glauca is a species of flowering plant in the willow family known by the common names gray willow, grayleaf willow, white willow, and glaucous willow. It is native to North America, where it occurs throughout much of Alaska , northern and western Canada, and the contiguous United States south through the Rocky Mountains to northern New ...
Salix bebbiana is a species of willow indigenous to Canada and the northern United States, from Alaska and Yukon south to California and Arizona and northeast to Newfoundland and New England. [2] Common names include beaked willow , long-beaked willow , gray willow , and Bebb's willow .