Bog Willow

SCIENTIFIC NAME

Salix pedicellaris

DESCRIPTION

The bog willow enjoys a rich, wet bog like environment and the stem can grow from 50 to 150 centimetres tall. The leaves alternate, smooth, ovate to elliptic, two to five centimetres long, up to two cm wide, with green on top and bluish-green underneath. It carries green to brown catkins from May to June. This shrub has all male or all female catkins. This willow also has oval or pear-shaped capsules that contain woolly seeds in its two halves.

RANGE

This plant is native to Canada and is found in every province and territory.

HABITAT

Rich, wet, bogs, swamps and fens

DIET

BEHAVIOUR

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PRIMARY ECOSYSTEM ROLES

The bog willow is a pollinator plant and feeds butterflies and bees.