Salix vestitaPursh

rock willow

WFO wfo-0000929402 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Salix vestita, photographed by Todd Boland
fig. a Todd Boland, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-08-12 / obs. 150361659
Salix vestita, photographed by J Straka
fig. b J Straka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171191124
Salix vestita, photographed by Liam Steele
fig. c Liam Steele, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145495298
Salix vestita, photographed by Caleb Catto
fig. d Caleb Catto, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 73680716
Salix vestita, photographed by Rose Zappa
fig. e Rose Zappa, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 47284589
Salix vestita, photographed by Todd Boland
fig. f Todd Boland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 44076537
Salix vestita, photographed by John Brew
fig. g John Brew, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 21836998
Salix vestita, photographed by Roger Rittmaster
fig. h Roger Rittmaster, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189309431

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Native range 19 botanical countries

Regions where Salix vestita is native: Altay, Buryatiya, Irkutsk, Mongolia, Tuva, Xinjiang, Yakutiya, Alberta, British Columbia, Labrador, Manitoba, Montana, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Oregon, Québec, Washington AltayBuryatiyaIrkutskMongoliaTuvaXinjiangYakutiyaAlbertaBritish ColumbiaLabradorManitobaMontanaNewfoundlandNova ScotiaNunavutOntarioOregonQuébecWashington
Native distribution of Salix vestita, 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
Alberta ABT NORTHERN AMERICA
British Columbia BRC
Labrador LAB
Manitoba MAN
Montana MNT
Newfoundland NFL
Nova Scotia NSC
Nunavut NUN
Ontario ONT
Oregon ORE
Québec QUE
Washington WAS
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Buryatiya BRY
Irkutsk IRK
Mongolia MON
Tuva TVA
Xinjiang CHX
Yakutiya YAK

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 leiolepis Fernald
  • Salix vestita f. vestita
  • Salix vestita subsp. leiolepis (Fernald) Argus
  • Salix vestita var. psilophylla Fernald & H.St.John
  • Salix vestita var. vestita

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.