| Scientific Name: | Salix scouleriana |
| Common Name: | Scouler's willow, mountain willow |
| Family Name: | Salicaceae |
| Origin: | Canada - northern |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Shrub - deciduous, Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 5 - 7m x 4 - 5m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Erosion control, Floristry, Mixed shrub border, Reclamation, Spring interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Bog |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Pubescent, Oblanceolate, Oblong, Obovate, Crenate, Entire, Undulate (wavy) |
| Flowers: | Catkin (ament), White, Silver, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, May-Jun |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Shrub or small tree up to 9m tall; messy, multi-stemmed, deciduous tree, twigs thick, yellow turning brown; leaves, oblong to obovate to oblanceolate, (3-)4-10(-12)cm long x 4-6cm wide, thick, upper surface glabrous dull green, lower surface glabrous to densely covered with short gray hairs, prominently veined, petioles 5-10mm long; male catkins 2-6cm long, pussy willow-like; capsules 7-9mm long. Winter ID: grey bark with greenish to reddish-brown twigs. <a href ='http://linnet.geog.ubc.ca/Atlas/Atlas.aspx?sciname=Salix%20scouleriana' target='_blank'>E-Flora BC</a> | |