Salicaceae

Woolly willow

Salix lanata L.

Family: Salicaceae
Genus: Salix

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Woolly willow (Salix lanata) — FlowerPhoto: Tom Evans, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist

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Common names

By language (18)

Arabic: صفصاف صوفي
Azerbaijani: Tükcüklü söyüd
Bulgarian: Мъхеста върба
Chinese: 北密毛柳
Czech: Vrba vlnatá
Danish: Uld-Pil
English: Woolly willow
Faroese: Loðpílur
Finnish: Villapaju
German: Woll-Weide, Wollweide
hsb: Wołmata wjerba
Icelandic: Loðvíðir
Norwegian Bokmål: Ullvier, Kjertelvier
Persian: بید پشمین
Russian: Ива мохнатая
se: Vilgessieđga
Swedish: Ullvide
Welsh: Helygen wlanog

Synonyms

Diplima chrysantha (Vahl) Raf.
Salix chrysanthos Vahl
Salix depressa L.
Salix glandulifera Flod.
Salix lanata subsp. glandulifera (Flod.) Hiitonen
Salix lanuginosa Pall.

Flowers

In flower: June (from 254 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)

Photos

FlowerPhoto: Tom Evans, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
FlowerPhoto: Will Cornwell, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
FlowerPhoto: Dr. Alexey Yakovlev, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
Photo: Sten Porse, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons
Photo: Wouter Koch, CC0, from iNaturalist
Photo: Robert Matthews, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons
Photo: virgile, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF
Photo: er-birds, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
Photo: Robert Matthews, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons
Photo: Pascale Broceliande, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF
Photo: Jens-Christian Svenning, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
Photo: Robert Matthews, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons

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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.