Scientific Name: Salix caprea 'Kilmarnock'
Common Name: weeping pussy willow
Family Name: Salicaceae
Origin: Europe, Garden origin
Hardiness Zone: Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C)
Plant Type: Flowering cut plant, Shrub - deciduous, Tree - deciduous
Mature Size: 2 - 3m x 5 - 7m (height x width)
Habit: Pendulous
Form: Weeping
Texture: Medium
Landscape Uses: Cut flower or foliage, Specimen plant
Exposure: Full sun
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Elliptic, Oblong, Crenate
Flowers: Catkin (ament), Silver, Mar-Apr
Fruit: Capsule, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Brown, Aug-Sep
Key ID Features:
Usually grafted on a willow root stock for forma a small tree with pendulous branches; leaves alternate, elliptic, most blades 4-12cm long x 2-6cm wide, toothed, dark green above, grey-green below; male catkins appear before leaves, grey with yellow anthers.