| Scientific Name: | Salix hookeriana |
| Common Name: | Hooker's willow, coastal willow |
| Family Name: | Salicaceae |
| Origin: | B.C. west of Cascades, U.S. - northwest |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 6: (-23 to -18 °C) |
| Plant Type: | 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, Wetland - bogs, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Bog |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Tomentose, Elliptic, Obovate, Crenate, Undulate (wavy) |
| Flowers: | Catkin (ament), Green-yellow, Mar-Apr |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, May-Jun |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Shrub mostly 1-5(-8)m tall with dark grey bark and yellowish to reddish-brown twigs that are usually densely hairy; leaves mostly elliptic to obovate, most blades 4-11cm long x 2-6cm wide, long soft-hairy or short-woolly to shaggy-hairy, sometimes nearly smooth, upper surface highly glossy, long soft-hairy to nearly smooth, margins entire to toothed, bases and tips pointed to rounded; stipules absent, rudimentary, or leaf-like on vigorous shoots; male catkins yellow, 4-8cm x 2.5cm; female catkins elongate, 6-9cm long as fruit develop. <a href ='http://linnet.geog.ubc.ca/Atlas/Atlas.aspx?sciname=Salix%20hookeriana' target='_blank'>E-Flora BC</a> | |