Sandbar Willow
Salix interior 
A thicket-forming shrub found over most of the state. The shrub reclaims stream banks by sending out underground shoots. It is drought-resistant and suitable for planting on stream bottoms to prevent erosion. It prefers sandbars, mud flats and stream bank soils with less gravel than Ward's willow.
Identifying Characteristics
- Height
- 20 ft
- Spread
- 20 ft
- Leaves
- simple, alternate, many times longer than wide; 2" - 6" long, 1/4" wide; with widely-spaced small teeth; light yellow-green, hairy below
- Flowers -
- catkins appearing after the leaves
- Fruit
- capsules about l/4" long; narrowly egg-shaped to cone-shaped and clustered together
- Bark
- smooth, thin, dark red-brown
- Associated species
- silver maple, cottonwood, willow
- Ideal site conditions
- wide range, full sun
- Value to man
- erosion
- Value to wildlife
- food
- Growth Rate
- fast
- Range
