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Goat willow
Charles Risen, Pixabay

Goat willow

Salix caprea

  • Height: up to 10 m
  • Trunk: Shrub-like or small tree, grey bark with large diamond-shaped patterns
  • Leaves: Leaves elliptical to obovate, twisted tip, alternate
  • Flowers: palm catkins (up to 3 cm) with dense silvery fur in March/April
  • Other: short-lived pioneer species, the only willow species that only occurs outside floodplains and marshes

 

Sal Weide II Martina Gehret
Sal-Weide
Photo: Martina Gehret

Sal Weide Martina Gehret
Sal-Weide
Photo: Martina Gehret