amygdaloides when I spot a sprinkling of yellow from individual trees. This hybrid definitely forms colonies and can have either erect or drooping branches. x rubens, as the distinction can be difficult. According to David, experts think that most reports of pure Salix fragilis in North America are really the hybrid S. fragilis, both Eurasian species and both listed as occurring here themselves. Probably the large patches of yellow branches are from Salix x rubens, the naturalized hybrid of S. But with a fast tutorial from David Werier and some internet searching, I have some guesses. I am not even close to an expert on willows, and there are so many species and cultivars that it would be folly for me to try to conclusively identify which species I see. But there are many other willows with yellowish branches, some native in the Finger Lakes, many introduced. x pendulina) with its distinctive silhouette of pendulous branches. This year the turning point was the very first week of February, when I saw a golden haze across an empty farm field – backlit willows! It is relatively easy to spot the introduced “weeping willow” ( Salix x sepulcralis and S.
I look for the trees, especially groves of trees where the young branches grow yellow in the spring, and I usually see them by the end of February. But the most prominent of those are shrubs. There are many willows with colorful bark, even all winter.
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