Taxon:  Salix alba L. subsp. caerulea (Sm.) Rech. f.



Summary
Genus:
Salix
Family:
Salicaceae
Nomen number:
404880
Place of publication:
Oesterr. Bot. Z. 110:338.  1963
Verified:
03/28/1996 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in Nordic Baltic Genebanks. 
Other conspecific taxa
Salix alba L. (0 active accession[s])
Salix alba L. subsp. alba (0 active accession[s])
Salix alba L. subsp. vitellina (L.) Schübl. & G. Martens (0 active accession[s])
Salix alba L. var. alba (0 active accession[s])
Salix alba L. var. sericea Gaudin (0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Salix caerulea Sm.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Salix alba L. var. caerulea (Sm.) W. D. J. Koch

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Salix alba L. var. calva G. Mey.

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Reference(s)
  1. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  2. Stace, C. 1995. New flora of the British Isles. Note: = Salix alba var. caerulea (Sm.) Dumort
  3. Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, ed. 2.
Common names
LANGUAGENAMEALTERNATE NAMENOTESEQCITATION
English blue willow as S. alba var. caerulea 1 Newsholme, C. 1992. Willows, the genus Salix Note: = S. alba var. caerulea (Sm.) K. Koch
English cricket-bat willow 1 Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
2CultivatedEurope Europe  
Cultivated
Europe
  • REGION: Europe
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Materialscanefor making cricket bats fide F Eur ed2; Willows 16. 1992, as S. alba var. coeruleaNewsholme, C. 1992. Willows, the genus Salix Note: accepts, "coerulea"
Materialswoodfor making cricket bats fide F Eur ed2; Willows 16. 1992, as S. alba var. coeruleaNewsholme, C. 1992. Willows, the genus Salix Note: accepts, "coerulea"
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2026. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.nordic-baltic-genebanks.org/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=404880. Accessed 20 October 2026.