Shrubs or trees, 0.3-20 m. Buds caprea-type. Leaves: stipules on late ones absent, minute rudiments, or foliaceous; largest medial blade 1.5-9 times as long as wide, adaxial surface not glaucous. Staminate flowers: filaments glabrous or hairy. Pistillate flowers: adaxial nectary shorter or longer than stipe; stipe 0.5-2.7 mm; ovary glabrous or sparsely to very densely hairy; stigmas slenderly to broadly cylindrical, 0.2-1 mm.

Species 37 (8 in the flora): North America, Eurasia, Africa.

Lower Taxa

• Salix atrocinerea Brotero
• Salix aurita Linnaeus
• Salix caprea Linnaeus
• Salix cinerea Linnaeus
• Salix discolor Muhlenberg
• Salix hookeriana Barratt ex Hooker
• Salix humilis Marshall
• Salix scouleriana Barratt ex Hooker