- Height: Multi-stemmed shrub 6-15 feet, or small tree, 15-30’
- Soil: moist or wet
- Light: full sun
- Bloom: Grayish catkins late winter; often the earliest source of pollen
- Foliage: Long, medium to gray-green.
- Landscape: Hedge, rain garden, specimen; catkins on male plants are often showier.
- Resistance: Deer, wet, black walnut
- More information and native range here
Willow, Pussy
$45.00Price
3 Gallons
Pollinator value: Very High. Larval host for Mourning Cloak, Viceroy and Red-spotted Purple butterflies; and several moths including the nation's largest, the Cecropia. Willows provide early season harvest for songbirds, waterfowl and small mammals.
Willows are among Keystone Plants, those that feed the largest numbers of pollinators.
Good as a hedge or specimen, or incorporated into a pollinator or rain garden. Stems with catkins often used as indoor arrangements.