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|accepted_name=Salix viminalis
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 1021. 1753
|year=1753
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|common_names=Osier;basket willow;silky osier
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W
|label=Weedy
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|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Salicaceae;Salix;Salix subg. Vetrix;Salix sect. Viminella;Salix viminalis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Salicaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Salix]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Salix subg. Vetrix]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Salix sect. Viminella]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Salix viminalis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 94, 132, 137
|treatment_page=page 149
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems:</b> branches yellow-brown, gray-brown, or yellowish, not glaucous, glabrous or puberulent; branchlets yellow-brown or yellowish (sometimes color obscured by hairs), glabrous, densely to sparsely villous, velvety, or puberulent. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules (not adnate to petioles), rudimentary or absent on early ones, (late ones sometimes brownish, linear, 5.4–10.4 mm), apex acuminate; petiole shallowly grooved adaxially, 4–13 mm, villous, puberulent, or velvety adaxially; largest medial blade linear, lorate, narrowly oblong, or narrowly elliptic, 53–130 × 5–33 mm, base cuneate, margins strongly revolute, sinuate or apparently entire, (glands epilaminal), apex acuminate, acute, or convex, abaxial surface apparently glaucous (obscured by hairs), densely short-silky, woolly, or tomentose, (midribs prominent, yellowish, and hairy), hairs appressed, spreading or erect, straight or wavy, adaxial dull or slightly glossy, sparsely or moderately densely pubescent, hairs gray; proximal blade margins entire; juvenile blade yellowish green, very densely tomentose or short-silky abaxially, hairs white. <b>Catkins</b> flowering just before or as leaves emerge; staminate stout, 24–48 mm, flowering branchlet 0–2 mm; pistillate densely flowered, 23–55 mm, flowering branchlet 0–6 mm; floral bract brown or tawny, 1.6–2.2 mm, apex convex or rounded, abaxially hairy, hairs straight. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: adaxial nectary narrowly oblong or oblong, 0.6–1.5 mm; filaments distinct; anthers purple turning yellow, ellipsoid to shortly cylindrical, 0.6–0.8 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: adaxial nectary narrowly oblong or oblong, 0.9–1.4 mm; ovary pyriform, beak gradually tapering to styles; ovules 12–18 per ovary; styles 0.6–1.8 mm. <b>Capsules</b> 4–6 mm. <b>2n</b> = 38.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr-early May.
|habitat=Sandy, open woods, cobble rivershores, lake margins, and roadsides
|elevation=0-300 m
|distribution=N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Conn.;Ind.;Iowa;Maine;Mass.;N.J.;N.Y.;Ohio;R.I.;Vt.;Europe.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p><i>Salix ×smithiana</i> (<i>S. caprea</i> × <i>S. viminalis</i>) is distinguished from <i>S. viminalis</i> by having leaf blades usually broad, 2.8–4.9(–6.4) times as long as wide, stipes 0.9–2 mm, ovaries short-silky, branches ± brittle at base, and petioles flat to convex adaxially; <i>S. viminalis</i> has leaf blades usually very narrow, 4.7–13.7 times as long as wide, stipes 0.1–0.5 mm, ovaries long-silky, branches flexible at base, and petioles shallowly grooved adaxially.</p><!--
--><p>See <i>Salix ×smithiana</i> [p. 132] and 86. <i>S. pellita</i> for further comparative descriptions.</p>
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name=Salix viminalis
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Salicaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr-early May.
|habitat=Sandy, open woods, cobble rivershores, lake margins, and roadsides
|elevation=0-300 m
|distribution=N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Conn.;Ind.;Iowa;Maine;Mass.;N.J.;N.Y.;Ohio;R.I.;Vt.;Europe.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=Weedy;Introduced
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|genus=Salix
|subgenus=Salix subg. Vetrix
|section=Salix sect. Viminella
|species=Salix viminalis
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