Salix arbusculoidesAndersson

littletree willow

WFO wfo-0000929010 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Salix arbusculoides, photographed by Syd Cannings
fig. a Syd Cannings, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-07-16 / obs. 144033104
Salix arbusculoides, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. b Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 48251144
Salix arbusculoides, photographed by Vincent Weber
fig. c Vincent Weber, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 162584775
Salix arbusculoides, photographed by Vincent Weber
fig. d Vincent Weber, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 162584851

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 10 botanical countries

Regions where Salix arbusculoides is native: Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Québec, Saskatchewan, Yukon AlaskaAlbertaBritish ColumbiaManitobaNorthwest TerritoriesNunavutOntarioQuébecSaskatchewanYukon
Native distribution of Salix arbusculoides, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Alaska ASK NORTHERN AMERICA
Alberta ABT
British Columbia BRC
Manitoba MAN
Northwest Territories NWT
Nunavut NUN
Ontario ONT
Québec QUE
Saskatchewan SAS
Yukon YUK

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.

Also published as 5 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 arbusculoides f. arbusculoides
  • Salix arbusculoides f. puberula Andersson
  • Salix humillima Andersson
  • Salix humillima var. puberula (Andersson) Andersson
  • Salix saskatchavana Seemen

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.