Authors: Syme  

Botanical Description

in general character but having leaves up to 3.5cm, pubescent at first but later glabrous and glaucous below. The catkins are borne on leafy peduncles with the scales clothed in long silky hairs. Found by John Sadler in Glen Callater, Aberdeenshire in 1874, later recorded from other stations in Scotland and also from Iceland and Scandinavia. A willow sometimes grown under this name resembles a prostrate form of S. lanata with somewhat smaller leaves with an acute apex. It is a good plant but certainly not the true S. sadleri.