Easily confused with : Flower [a plant of similar name]

Not to be confused with : Flower [a plant with similar name]

Hybridises with :

• Mountain Willow (Salix arbuscula) to produce Salix × simulatrix
• Eared Willow (Salix aurita) to produce Salix × margarita
• Woolly Willow (Salix lanata) to produce Salix × sadleri
• Downy Willow (Salix lapponum) to produce Salix × sobrina
• Dark-leaved Willow (Salix myrsinifolia) to produce Salix × semireticulata
• Creeping Willow (Salix repens) to produce Salix × cernua

Whether any of the above photographs correspond with any of the above hybrids is unknown.

Some similarities to : Bearberry in that Bearberry is also a mountain under-shrub barely getting 2 inches above the ground, and which has shiny veined leaves (but which are not cupped but rather curved outwards.

Uniquely identifiable characteristics

Distinguishing Feature : The seed capsules and the very low habit on high mountainous ground.

Dwarf Willow is one of the shortest woody plants in the World, barely if every reaching 2 inches above the ground. It likes the cold and occupies high mountainous bare and rocky ground, only ever reaching the lower lands in the far North of Scotland. Like all other Willows, it is dioecious, and has red-coloured male and yellow-coloured female catkins on separate plants, which are so different as to look like a different species.

Some claim it to be the worlds smallest 'tree', but it has anything but a typical tree-like stance or jizz.

Like many willows, it freely hybridizes with other Willows; the six hybrids are listed above.

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