Common Sallow

Name: Common Sallow

Scientific name: Salix cinerea

Category: Trees and bushes

Nature Stars: 30

What are nature stars?

About: A large shrub willow.

How to identify: Told from other scrub willows by the relatively small, blunt ended, oblong leaves, two or three times as long as broad.

Where: Widespread.

Fantastic fact: Also known as Grey Willow

Photograph credit: Philip Precey