Michigan Trees: A Handbook of the Native and Most Important Introduced Species

by Charles Herbert Otis

3. Leaf, × 1.

4. Pistillate flowering branchlet, × 1/2.

5. Pistillate flower, enlarged.

6. Fruiting branchlet, × 1/2.

SALICACEAE

Weeping Willow. Napoleon’s Willow

Salix babylonica L.

HABIT.—A tree 40-50 feet high, with a short, stout trunk 3-4 feet in diameter; the long, slender branchlets, often many feet in length, droop in graceful festoons, giving to the tree a weeping habit.

LEAVES.—Alternate, simple, 3-7 inches long, 1/4-1/2 inch broad; linear to linear-lanceolate, long-pointed; finely sharp-serrate; thin and firm; glabrous, dark green above, paler beneath; petioles 1/2 inch or less in length, glandular above, often hairy.