Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Salix x pendulina tristis [Salix alba var. tristis] [Salix alba var. vitellina-tristis] [Salix x sepulcralis] [Salix babylonica, in error]
- Family
- Salicaceae
- CommonName
- golden weeping willow
- Presence
- yes
- Status
- exotic
- EarliestDate
- 1968
- LatestDate
- 2022
- Ecosystem
- basin, foothill, urban
- Geobotanical
- SSanjuans, UBasin, LBasin
- Counties
- Alamosa, Conejos, Rio Grande
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- Alamosa (town)
- PhotoRecords
- YES Richard Haswell: Rio Grande Co, by farm house by Hwy 160 2.6 miles west of Del Norte, 26 May 2020
- Comments
- In the Watershed, golden weeping willow is always cultivated and rarely spreads. 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 west of Del Norte (2020), by Hwy 285 just north of La Jara (2021), etc. A recent observation is of an abandoned tree east of Center (Rio Grande Co): iNaturalist #31244944 (Aug 17, 2022). Traditionally, the species in the Watershed has been referred to as "Salix babylonica" (e.g., Weber and Wittmann, 2012). The correct identification, a hybrid, Salix x pendulina tristis, was argued by Argus (1973) and most convincingly, by Belyaeva, et al., 2021. Note that the notion of "weeping" applied to these species is contained in the common names in Europe : e.g., saule pleureur (French), Trauerweide (German), salice piangente (Italian), sauce llorón (Spanish).
- Annotation