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§1 Plant
Salix ×sepulcralis Simonkai [alba × babylonica]
vernacular weeping willow — species · Salicaceae
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§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Salicaceae Mirb.
- Genus
- Salix
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Introduced
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 93 counties across 23 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- Low
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -23 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 100 min.
- Precipitation
- 30–90 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.5–7.5
- Root depth
- 24 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 70 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 45 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Moderate
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- White
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Early Spring
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Spring
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Propagation
- cuttings, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Fuelwood
- Low
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 93 counties across 23 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 2 I ▾
California view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 1 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 23 I ▾
- Bossier 22015
- Calcasieu 22019
- Cameron 22023
- Claiborne 22027
- Concordia 22029
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Carroll 22035
- Iberia 22045
- Jackson 22049
- Lincoln 22061
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Richland 22083
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Union 22111
- West Carroll 22123
- West Feliciana 22125
Massachusetts view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 2 I ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 3 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Texas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Utah view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Wyoming view state ↗ 2 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SASE10 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5373037 ↗Record version
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