Purple Willow
Salix purpurea L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 5.0 m
- wide
- 5.0 m
Salicaceae
Also called Purple Osier
Formerly Knafia purpurea, Vetrix purpurea
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to Caucasus, NW. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 5.0 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants for a Future, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Spread
- 5.0 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- French
- Saule pourpre, Osier pourpre, Osier rouge
- root
- SALPUR
- Portuguese
- Salgueiro-de-casca-roxa
- German
- Purpur-Weide, Purpurweide
- Czech
- vrba nachová
- Danish
- Purpur-pil
- Dutch
- Bittere wilg, bittere wilg
- Finnish
- Punapaju, punapaju
- Norwegian Bokmål
- rødpil
- Russian
- Ива пурпурная
- Lithuanian
- Purpurinis karklas
- Croatian
- Rakita, Crvena vrba
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.5
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Salix purpurea (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.