Description

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Botanic Name(s): Salix nigra

Common Name(s): Black Willow, swamp willow

Mature height: 35 – 50′

Mature spread: 20 – 35′

Flower Color / Bloom Time: Yellow / March – April

Fruit: Cone / April – May

Fall Color: Yellow

Sun Exposure: Full Sun Part Sun

Soil moisture: Moist Wet

Soil Ph: 6 – 8

Soil Type:

• Clay Soil – High clay content, fine texture
• Loamy Soil – Mostly silt, sand, some clay
• Organic soil – High level of decayed leaves, bark
• Sandy soil – Coarse texture

Native Habitat: Fresh tidal marshes and swamps, forested wetlands, floodplains, wet meadows, seasonally to regularly satrated or flooded

Notes: Streambank stabilizer, spreads by suckers, preferred food of ruffed grouse and pine grosbeak, tolerates flooding, tolerates salinity Erosion Control Flood Tolerant

High Wildlife Value: SongbirdsGame Birds Small Mammals Waterfowl

OBL – Almost always occur in wetlands

Native to Coastal Regions

Native To Mountain Regions

Native to Piedmont Regions

Native Tree