Alternate name: Carolina Willow
Family: Salicaceae, Willow view all from this family
Description Shrub or small tree with spreading or slightly drooping branches.
Height: 30' (9 m).
Diameter: 1' (0.3 m).
Leaves: 2-4" ( 5-10 cm) long 1/2-3/4" (12-19 mm) wide. Lance-shaped; finely saw-toothed; densely hairy when young. Green above; whitish and nearly hairless beneath. Leafstalks hairy.
Bark: gray to blackish; fairly smooth, furrowed into broad scaly ridges.
Twigs: brown; slender, limber; hairy when young.
Flowers: catkins 3-4" (7.5-10 cm) long; greenish or yellowish; at ends of leafy twigs in spring.
Fruit: 1/4" (6 mm) long; long-pointed capsules; light reddish-brown; maturing in late spring or early summer.
Habitat Wet soils of stream banks and swamps.
Range S. Pennsylvania south to S. Florida, west to central Texas, and north to SE. Nebraska; to 2000' (610 m).
Discussion This is the common small tree willow found at low altitudes in the southeastern United States.
