Salix sepulcralis group Salix sepulcralis group The "Salix sepulcralis" group is a cultivar group containing all cultivars of hybrids between "Salix alba" and "Salix babylonica". The "sepulcralis" or × "sepulcralis" trees are sometimes referred to as white weeping willow or glaucous weeping willow in reference to the mixed appearance from the parent species. It was first described by L. Simonkai in 1890 from trees growing in Romania. The group contains both weeping and nonweeping cultivars, though the best-known of its cultivars is 'Chrysocoma', the most widely grown weeping tree.. Some of the cultivars are hybrids of "S. babylonica" var. "matsudana" 'Tortuosa' and have
Salix hookeriana Jackson Hooker, author of Flora Boreali-Americana in which the species was first published. The plant is native to the west coast of North America from Alaska to northern California, where it grows in coastal habitat such as beaches, marshes, floodplains, and canyons. Salix hookeriana Salix hookeriana is a species of willow known by the common names dune willow, coastal willow, and Hooker's willow. "Salix hookeriana" is a shrub or tree growing up to tall, sometimes forming bushy colonial thickets. The leaves are up to 11 cm long, generally oval in shape, wavy along the edges, and hairy to woolly in