I've only seen two specimens of this species. One wild near a bank landscape and one next to a house, both in southeast PA. I don't know ...Read Moreof it being grown in the nursery trade. It has a large native range over much of Canada, the Pacific Northwest, the northern Midwest, and the Northeast USA. The variety in eastern North America is Salix lucida lucida and is normally a large shrub about 15 feet high. It can be a small tree with a short trunk to 20 feet high in the East. It probably gets bigger in the West. It is cold hardy to USDA Zone 2. It bears 1 to 2" long light green to yellow-green catkins similar to Pussy Willow in April-May with the leaves.
I've only seen two specimens of this species. One wild near a bank landscape and one next to a house, both in southeast PA. I don't know ...Read More