Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Salix babylonica
- Family
- Salicaceae
- CommonName
- weeping willow
- Presence
- Yes
- Status
- exotic
- EarliestDate
- 1968
- LatestDate
- 2023
- Ecosystem
- basin, foothill
- Geobotanical
- UBasin, LBasin
- Counties
- Alamosa, Conejos, Rio Grande
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- Alamosa (town), Del Norte
- Comments
- In the Watershed, weepig willow is always cultivated and has not been recorded spreading. Single trees have been observed in the towns of Alamosa (1968) and Monte Vista (2023), on the grounds of Adams State College in Alamosa (1994), by a farm house W of Del Norte (2020), by Hwy 285 just north of La Jara (2021), etc. The specific name is Linnaeus's witty allusion to the 137th Psalm: "By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept." The common names for the species in Europe all refer to weeping: e.g., saule pleureur (French), Trauerweide (German), salice piangente (Italian), sauce llorón (Spanish).
- Annotation