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A fast-growing shrub, displaying single to multiple trunks and young, coarsely toothed, silvery-gray to medium green leaves. Birds are attracted to the cone-like yellow-green fruit.
| • | Full Sun |
| • | Moist to Wet Soils |
| • | Attracts Birds |
| • | Fast |
| • | Spring |
| • | Green |
| • | Naturalizing |
| • | Container Plants |
Native to Ontario and most of North America. The twigs and branches are used by Native Americans for basket weaving and arrow making.
Beaked willow grows best in a moist soil. Typically a large multi-stemmed shrub or small shrubby tree that will form dense colonial thickets. Tolerant of heavy clay or rocky soils.
