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Salix pyrenaica
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Salix pyrenaica' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Synonyms
- S. ciliata DC.
Other taxa in genus
- Salix aegyptiaca
- Salix alba
- Salix amygdaloides
- Salix arbuscula
- Salix arbutifolia
- Salix arctica
- Salix aurita
- Salix babylonica
- Salix bockii
- Salix 'Boydii'
- Salix caesia
- Salix × calodendron
- Salix candida
- Salix caprea
- Salix cinerea
- Salix cordata
- Salix daphnoides
- Salix × dasyclados
- Salix discolor
- Salix elaeagnos
- Salix exigua
- Salix fargesii
- Salix fragilis
- Salix glabra
- Salix glaucosericea
- Salix gracilistyla
- Salix hastata
- Salix herbacea
- Salix hookeriana
- Salix humboldtiana
- Salix irrorata
- Salix japonica
- Salix jessoensis
- Salix lanata
- Salix lapponum
- Salix lasiandra
- Salix lindleyana
- Salix lucida
- Salix magnifica
- Salix matsudana
- Salix × meyeriana
- Salix × mollissima
- Salix moupinensis
- Salix myrsinifolia
- Salix myrsinites
- Salix myrtilloides
- Salix nakamurana
- Salix nigra
- Salix nigricans
- Salix nipponica
- Salix pentandra
- Salix petiolaris
- Salix phylicifolia
- Salix purpurea
- Salix pyrifolia
- Salix repens
- Salix reticulata
- Salix retusa
- Salix rigida
- Salix × rubra
- Salix sachalinensis
- Salix scouleriana
- Salix × sepulcralis
- Salix sericea
- Salix silesiaca
- Salix × smithiana
- Salix starkeana
- Salix × subalpina
- Salix triandra
- Salix triandra
- Salix uva-ursi
- Salix viminalis
- Salix wilhelmsiana
A dense shrub with procumbent main stems and ascending branches, up to 3 ft high though commonly only half that height; branchlets soon glabrous, reddish brown. Leaves broadly oval, ovate-elliptic or obovate, 3⁄4 to 11⁄4 in. long, upper surface green, fairly glossy, with scattered long hairs, underside at first hairy all over, becoming glabrous except on the main veins, margins entire, fringed with long hairs; petiole about 3⁄16 in. long. Catkins lax, borne on leafy peduncles; scales obtuse, sparsely hairy. Stamens glabrous with purplish anthers. Ovary ovoid, woolly, almost sessile; style sometimes divided at the apex, stigmas bifid, the divisions slender.
An endemic of the Pyrenees and the Cantabrian mountains, allied to S. glauca. It is one of the first willows to have been recorded scientifically, for it was found by the Netherlands botanist Charles de l’Escluse (Clusius) during his journey to France, Spain and Portugal, 1561–5, and figured by him in a work of 1601. It was introduced to Britain in 1823 and reintroduced early this century.