| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salicaceae | Salix ×pendulina | Weeping Willow | Disturbed areas. | A hybrid introduced from Europe. | |
| Salicaceae | Salix ×rubens | Crack Willow, Brittle Willow | Low areas. | Hybrid of S. alba × fragilis, both native of the Old World. Reported as naturalizing in n. VA (Arlington County and City of Alexandria) by Simmons et al. (2020). | |
| Salicaceae | Salix ×sepulcralis | Weeping Willow | Disturbed areas | A hybrid introduced from Europe. | |
| Salicaceae | Salix alba | European White Willow | Disturbed bottomlands, other moist to wet disturbed areas. | Native of Eurasia. |  |
| Salicaceae | Salix amygdaloides | Peachleaf Willow | Floodplains and other wet places. | QC west to BC, south to PA, n. WV, w. KY, MO, TX, NM, NV, AZ, and OR. |  |
| Salicaceae | Salix atrocinerea | Common Sallow, Olive-leaf Willow, Large Gray Willow | Disturbed areas. | Native of w. Europe. Also reported as naturalized in KY (Clark et al. 2005) and PA (Kartesz 1999). |  |
| Salicaceae | Salix aurita | Eared Willow | Wet thickets, swamps. | Native of Europe. |  |
| Salicaceae | Salix babylonica | Weeping Willow | Disturbed bottomlands, streambanks, roadsides, impoundments, other disturbed areas. | Native of Asia. Note that many trees identified as S. babylonica may actually be one of two commonly cultivated hybrids, S. × pendulina and S. ×sepulchralis, with S. babylonica as one parent. |  |
| Salicaceae | Salix bebbiana | Long-beaked Willow, Gray Willow | Upland and wetland thickets, bogs. | NL west to AK, south to NJ, PA, OH, IN, IL, IA, w. NE, NM, AZ, and n. CA; ne. Asia. Widespread and rather common in PA (Rhoads & Klein 1993; Rhoads & Block 2007) and also occurs in MD (Argus 1986) and NJ. |  |
| Salicaceae | Salix candida | Sage Willow, Hoary Willow | Fens, wet meadows, over calcareous substrates. | NL west to AK, south to n. NJ, n. PA, c. OH, c. IN, c. IL, ne. IA, SD, CO, ID, and WA. |  |
| Salicaceae | Salix caprea | Goat Willow, Great Sallow | Bogs, streambanks, disturbed areas. | Native of Eurasia. |  |
| Salicaceae | Salix caroliniana | Carolina Willow, Coastal Plain Willow | Riverbanks, sandbars, interdune ponds, canal banks, other wet sites. | Widespread in the Southeast, S. caroliniana has a peculiar range, with three main centers of distribution, the Coastal Plain from VA south to s. FL and west to s. AL and the FL Panhandle, the Interior Low Plateau of KY, TN, and n. AL, and an area of MO, AR, e. KS, and e. OK centered on the Ozark-Ouachita Highlands. |  |
| Salicaceae | Salix cinerea | Gray Willow | Streambanks, floodplains, bogs, other wet disturbed areas. | Native of Eurasia. |  |
| Salicaceae | Salix cordata | Sand-Dune Willow | Dunes and shores. | Great Lakes shores: NY, nw. PA, n. OH, MI, ON, nw. IN, ne. IL, WI. |  |
| Salicaceae | Salix discolor | Pussy Willow | Calcareous wetlands, disturbed areas. | NL (Newfoundland) and AB south to DE, w. VA, WV, KY, MO, SD, and MT. |  |
| Salicaceae | Salix elaeagnos | Hoary Willow, Rosemary Willow, Diamond Willow | Disturbed areas. | Reported for SC (Kartesz 1999, 2015), apparently in error (K. Bradley, pers.comm., 2020). | |
| Salicaceae | Salix eriocephala | Heart-leaved Willow, Diamond Willow, Missouri Willow | Streambanks, riverbanks, calcareous fens and marshes, river-scour prairies, impoundments, and other disturbed wet areas. | NL (Newfoundland) west to SK, south to w. FL, AR, s. KS, and ne. CO. |  |
| Salicaceae | Salix exigua var. exigua | Narrowleaf Willow, Coyote Willow | Streambanks. | AB and BC south to se. TX, NM, AZ, CA, and Mexico. | |
| Salicaceae | Salix famelica | Hungry Willow | Streambanks. | MB to AB south to n. MO (Schuyler and Adair counties), KS, and ne. CO. We defer to Argus (2005), who only lists this species as an upper Great Plains taxon. Counties listed in Kartesz (2015) need substantiation, and may more likely represent another member of section Cordatae, especially considering the apparent rare status of S. famelica in the southern portions of adjacent Kansas. | |
| Salicaceae | Salix floridana | Florida Willow | Sphagnous seepages and along spring runs. | C. GA and s. AL (north to Butler County) (Diamond 2013) south to c. peninsular and Panhandle FL. |  |
| Salicaceae | Salix humilis | Upland Willow, Prairie Willow | Upland areas, often in open or semi-open sites, in barrens, fens, rocky woodlands, and grassy balds over mafic rocks (such as amphibolite) up to at least 1800m elevation, also in powerline rights-of-way, woodland borders, and other miscellaneous habitats. | NL (Newfoundland) and MB, south to Panhandle FL and ne. TX. |  |
| Salicaceae | Salix interior | Sandbar Willow | Sandbars, riverbanks, creekbanks, flood scours. | NB west to BC, south to n. DE, n. VA, TN, MS, LA, TX, and NM. |  |
| Salicaceae | Salix lucida | Shining Willow | Seepages, low areas. | NL west to SK, south to NJ, VA, OH, IN, IL, IA, and SD. Uncertainly indigenous to the one known VA population in Roanoke County. |  |
| Salicaceae | Salix myricoides | Bayberry Willow, Broadleaved Willow, Blueleaf Willow | Stream banks and swamps. | NB west to ON, south to PA, OH, IN, and IL. |  |
| Salicaceae | Salix nigra | Black Willow | Riverbanks, sandbars, bottomland forests, floodplain pools, tidal swamps, impoundments, ditches, other moist areas. | NB, MN, NE, and CO, south to ne. FL, Panhandle FL, LA, TX, and Mexico. |  |
| Salicaceae | Salix occidentalis | Dwarf Upland Willow, Dwarf Prairie Willow | Barrens, glades, rocky or hardpan woodlands, prairies, powerline rights-of-way, rarely in depression ponds, especially over mafic (such as amphibolite), ultramafic (such as olivine), or calcareous rocks. | This species is less widespread than the related S. humilis, with a distribution centered in the central Appalachians: ME to ND, south to GA, LA, and OK. |  |
| Salicaceae | Salix pedicellaris | Bog Willow | Bogs and fens. | NL west to YT, south to n. NJ, ne. and nw. PA, sc. OH, s. IN, nc. IL, n. IA, ND, ID, and OR. |  |
| Salicaceae | Salix petiolaris | Meadow Willow, Skeletonleaf Willow | Streambanks, low prairies, marshes. | NS and QC west to NT and BC, south to NJ, PA, OH, IN, IL, MO, NE, and CO. |  |
| Salicaceae | Salix purpurea | Basket Willow, Purple Willow, Purple Osier | Floodplain forests, streambanks, wet, disturbed areas. | Native of Europe. |  |
| Salicaceae | Salix sericea | Silky Willow | Bogs, fens, seeps, seepage swamps, peaty swamps, banks of small streams. | NL, QC, MI, WI, and se. MN, south to w. NC, ne. GA, e. TN, sc. TN, n. AL, and n. AR. |  |
| Salicaceae | Salix serissima | Autumn Willow | Rich fens and wet meadows on calcareous substrates. | NL west to NT, south to n. NJ, s. PA, n. OH, n. IN, n. IL, s. MN, w. SD, s. CO, and BC. |  |
| Salicaceae | Salix thurberi | Thurber's Willow | Sandy or silty floodplains. | S. TX south to e. Mexico. | |
| Salicaceae | Salix triandra | Almond-leaf Willow | Disturbed areas, stream banks. | Native of Eurasia. |  |
| Salicaceae | Salix viminalis | Basket Willow | Rivershores, lake margins, roadsides. | Native of Europe. |  |
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