Salix acutifolia

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Salix acutifolia, photographed by sergleb — fig. b sergleb, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126699865

Salix acutifolia, photographed by Алексей Ябс — fig. c Алексей Ябс, CC0 1.0 / obs. 122918106

Salix acutifolia, photographed by Вячеслав Юсупов — fig. d Вячеслав Юсупов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 122039660

Salix acutifolia, photographed by Марина Садыкова — fig. e Марина Садыкова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 103127481

Salix acutifolia, photographed by Nadezhda Kiseleva — fig. f Nadezhda Kiseleva, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162210264

Salix acutifolia, photographed by Дмитрий Дунин — fig. g Дмитрий Дунин, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187237289

Salix acutifolia, photographed by Sergey Khm — fig. h Sergey Khm, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185191691

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 9 botanical countries

Native distribution of Salix acutifolia, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Baltic States	BLT	EUROPE
Central European Russia	RUC
East European Russia	RUE
Finland	FIN
North European Russia	RUN
Northwest European Russia	RUW
South European Russia	RUS
Kazakhstan	KAZ	ASIA-TEMPERATE
North Caucasus	NCS

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 1,084 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	-15.0 °C	-10.8 °C	-5.3 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	21.5 °C	23.9 °C	26.6 °C
Annual rainfall	484 mm	612 mm	713 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	80 mm	102 mm	119 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 1,084 research-grade observations of Salix acutifolia that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 3 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Salix daphnoides subsp. acutifolia (Willd.) Ahlfv.
Salix violacea Andrews
Vimen violacea Raf.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.