English > genus Salix: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | A large and widespread genus varying in size from small shrubs to large trees: willows. |
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| Synonym | Salix |
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| Member of | Salicaceae, family Salicaceae, willow family | Two genera of trees or shrubs having hairy catkins |
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| Members | Sitka willow, silky willow, Salix sitchensis | small shrubby tree of western North America (Alaska to Oregon) |
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| Wisconsin weeping willow, Salix pendulina, Salix blanda, Salix pendulina blanda | Hybrid willow usually not strongly weeping in habit |
| almond willow, black Hollander, Salix triandra, Salix amygdalina | Old World willow with light green leaves cultivated for use in basketry |
| arctic willow, Salix arctica | Low creeping shrub of Arctic Europe and America |
| arroyo willow, Salix lasiolepis | shrubby willow of the western United States |
| balsam willow, Salix pyrifolia | small shrubby tree of eastern North America having leaves exuding an odor of balsam / balsam when crushed |
| bay willow, laurel willow, Salix pentandra | European willow tree with shining leathery leaves |
| bearberry willow, Salix uva-ursi | Dwarf prostrate mat-forming shrub of Arctic and alpine regions / regions of North America and Greenland having deep green elliptic leaves that taper toward the base |
| common osier, hemp willow, velvet osier, Salix viminalis | willow with long flexible twigs used in basketry |
| crack willow, brittle willow, snap willow, Salix fragilis | large willow tree with stiff branches that are easily broken |
| creeping willow, Salix repens | small trailing bush of Europe and Asia having straggling branches with silky green leaves of which several varieties are cultivated |
| cricket-bat willow, Salix alba caerulea | Eurasian willow tree having greyish leaves and ascending branches |
| dwarf grey willow, dwarf gray willow, sage willow, Salix tristis | Willow shrub of dry places in the eastern United States having long narrow leaves canescent beneath |
| dwarf willow, Salix herbacea | widely distributed boreal shrubby willow with partially underground creeping stems and bright green glossy leaves |
| goat willow, florist's willow, pussy willow, Salix caprea | Much-branched Old World willow having large catkins and relatively large broad leaves |
| golden willow, Salix alba vitellina, Salix vitellina | European willow having greyish leaves and yellow-orange twigs used in basketry |
| grey willow, gray willow, Salix cinerea | Eurasian shrubby willow with whitish tomentose twigs |
| hoary willow, sage willow, Salix candida | North American shrub with whitish canescent leaves |
| osier | Any of various willows having pliable twigs used in basketry and furniture |
| peachleaf willow, peach-leaved willow, almond-leaves willow, Salix amygdaloides | willow of the western United States with leaves like those of peach or almond trees |
| prairie willow, Salix humilis | Slender shrubby willow of dry areas of North America |
| purple willow, red willow, red osier, basket willow, purple osier, Salix purpurea | Eurasian osier having reddish or purple twigs and bark rich in tannin |
| pussy willow, Salix discolor | small willow of eastern North America having greyish leaves and silky catkins that come before the leaves |
| sallow | Any of several Old World shrubby broad-leaved willows having large catkins |
| shining willow, Salix lucida | Common North American shrub with shiny lanceolate leaves |
| silver willow, silky willow, Salix alba sericea, Salix sericea | North American willow with greyish silky pubescent leaves that usually blacken in drying |
| swamp willow, black willow, Salix nigra | North American shrubby willow having dark bark and linear leaves growing close to streams and lakes |
| weeping willow, Babylonian weeping willow, Salix babylonica | willow with long drooping branches and slender leaves native to China |
| white willow, Huntingdon willow, Salix alba | large willow tree of Eurasia and North Africa having greyish canescent leaves and grey bark |
| willow, willow tree | Any of numerous deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Salix |
| Broader | hamamelid dicot genus | genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins |
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| Spanish | genus salix, salix |
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| Catalan | genus salix, salix, Salix, Salze |
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