| Scientific Name: | Salix discolor |
| Common Name: | American pussy willow, native willow |
| Family Name: | Salicaceae |
| Origin: | North America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 6: (-23 to -18 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Shrub - deciduous, Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 5 - 7m x 5 - 7m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Spreading, Upright |
| Form: | Round |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Cut flower or foliage, Erosion control, Reclamation, Spring interest, Waterside planting, Wetland - bogs, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Bog |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Tomentose, Elliptic, Oblanceolate, Oblong, Obovate, Ovate, Crenate, Entire, Serrate, Undulate (wavy) |
| Flowers: | Catkin (ament), Green-yellow, Mar-Apr |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, May-Jun |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Shrub 2-6m tall; twigs red-brown to yellowish, pubescent before quickly becoming glabrous; leaves narrowly elliptic to ovate to broadly oblanceolate, 3-10(-14)cm long, 1-3.5cm wide, sparsely long soft-hairy and then usually glabrous on both sides when mature, margins nearly entire to irregularly crenate or toothed, often undulate, bases rounded to wedge-shaped, tips pointed (acute); stipules leaf-like or rudimentary; male catkins grey becoming yellow and anthers emerge before the leaves and elongate up to 4cm long; female catkins elongate 7-10(-12)cm long as fruit develop. <a href ='http://linnet.geog.ubc.ca/Atlas/Atlas.aspx?sciname=Salix+discolor' target='_blank'>E-Flora BC</a> | |