Salix 'Chrysocoma' it is much hardier and more long-lived than the Babylon Willow ("Salix babylonica"). This particular cultivar is easily distinguished from the other Golden Weeping Willow ("S." × "sepulcralis") by its androgynous catkins. A weeping tree, not much more than 22m high. Bark greyish-brown, deeply fissured. Twigs very slender, at first thinly subadpressed pubescent, soon becoming glabrous. Golden- or greenish-yellow in their first year, later becoming olive-green. Catkins appearing with the leaves in April, terminal on very short, spreading, leafy, lateral shoots, peduncle and rhachis softly villose. Catkins male, female or most commonly androgynous. Salix 'Chrysocoma' "Salix" × "sepulcralis" <nowiki>'Chrysocoma'</nowiki>, or
Salix glauca Salix glauca Salix glauca is a species of flowering plant in the willow family known by the common names gray willow, gray-leaf willow, white willow, and glaucous willow. It is native to North America, where it occurs throughout much of Alaska, northern and western Canada, and the contiguous United States south through the Rocky Mountains to northern New Mexico. It can also be found in Greenland, northwestern Europe, and Siberia. This willow is usually a shrub growing up to tall, but in appropriate habitat it becomes a tree up to tall. The smooth gray bark becomes furrowed with age. The