Salix eleagnosScop.

Elaeagnus willowOlive Willow

WFO wfo-0000928552 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Salix eleagnos, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. a Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-24 / obs. 200308000
Salix eleagnos, photographed by Josep Gesti
fig. b Josep Gesti, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 169008605
Salix eleagnos, photographed by Josep Gesti
fig. c Josep Gesti, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 160678317
Salix eleagnos, photographed by Darío Estraviz López
fig. d Darío Estraviz López, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 156431509
Salix eleagnos, photographed by Rafael Medina
fig. e Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 149691826
Salix eleagnos, photographed by Marc Riera
fig. f Marc Riera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 148815750
Salix eleagnos, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. g Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145912003
Salix eleagnos, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. h Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145937753

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Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Salix eleagnos is native: Morocco, Türkiye, Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine MoroccoTürkiyeAlbaniaAustriaBulgariaCorseCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSpainSwitzerlandUkraine
Native distribution of Salix eleagnos, 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
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Bulgaria BUL
Corse COR
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR
Morocco MOR AFRICA
Türkiye TUR ASIA-TEMPERATE

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 10 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 angustifolia Poir.
  • Salix eleagnos subsp. angustifolia (Cariot) Rech.f.
  • Salix incana Schrank
  • Salix incana var. angustifolia Cariot
  • Salix lavandulifolia Lapeyr.
  • Salix linearis J.Forbes
  • Salix oleifolia Ser.
  • Salix otites hort. ex Dippel
  • Salix patula Ser.
  • Salix riparia Willd.

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.