Salix myricoidesMuhl.

bayberry willow

WFO wfo-0000929898 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 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 myricoides, photographed by Sarah Johnson
fig. a Sarah Johnson, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-07-25 / obs. 46210757
Salix myricoides, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. b Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 24096635
Salix myricoides, photographed by Sarah Johnson
fig. c Sarah Johnson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 46210990
Salix myricoides, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. d Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 24096644
Salix myricoides, photographed by Brandon Corder
fig. e Brandon Corder, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 142768522
Salix myricoides, photographed by Sarah Johnson
fig. f Sarah Johnson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 47054704
Salix myricoides, photographed by Brandon Corder
fig. g Brandon Corder, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 142768682
Salix myricoides, photographed by Sarah Johnson
fig. h Sarah Johnson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 47054875

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 12 botanical countries

Regions where Salix myricoides is native: Illinois, Indiana, Labrador, Maine, Michigan, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Québec, Wisconsin IllinoisIndianaLabradorMaineMichiganNew BrunswickNewfoundlandOhioOntarioPennsylvaniaQuébecWisconsin
Native distribution of Salix myricoides, 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
Illinois ILL NORTHERN AMERICA
Indiana INI
Labrador LAB
Maine MAI
Michigan MIC
New Brunswick NBR
Newfoundland NFL
Ohio OHI
Ontario ONT
Pennsylvania PEN
Québec QUE
Wisconsin WIS

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 6 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 glaucophylla var. albovestita C.R.Ball
  • Salix glaucophylloides Fernald
  • Salix glaucophylloides var. albovestita (C.R.Ball) Fernald
  • Salix glaucophylloides var. glaucophylla (Bebb) C.K.Schneid.
  • Salix myricoides var. albovestita (C.R.Ball) Dorn
  • Vimen myricoides (Muhl.) Raf.

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.