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Home  /  Plants  /  Budburst Species  /  Salix discolor
Phenology Observation Sheet for Deciduous Trees and Shrubs

COMMON NAME

American pussy willow

SCIENTIFIC NAME

Salix discolor

ALSO KNOWN AS

Glaucous willow

Plant family

Willow (Salicaceae)

Plant group

Deciduous Trees and Shrubs

Pussy willow, which can grow up to 25 feet tall, is best known by its soft, silvery catkins blooming in late winter-early spring.
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Identification hints

Pussy willow is dioecious meaning that there are male plants and female plants. So: catkins on male shrubs produce golden-yellow stamens; female plants produce green pistils. Pussy willows grow in moist, well-drained soil.
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Did you know?

The pussy willow contains salicin which was used in traditional medicine as a painkiller. It is a larval host to mourning cloak and viceroy butterflies. 
DISTRIBUTION IN TH U.S.
Connecticut , Delaware , Iowa , Illinois , Indiana , Kentucky , Massachusetts , Maryland , Maine , Michigan , Minnesota , Missouri , Montana , North Carolina , North Dakota , New Hampshire , New Jersey , New York , Ohio , Pennsylvania , Rhode Island , South Dakota , Virginia , Vermont , Wisconsin , West Virginia , Wyoming
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