Salix caprea, SE: Sälg, vanlig sälg, DE: Sal-Weide,
NL: Boswilg, UK: Goat Willow

Scientific name:		Salix caprea L.
Swedish name:		Sälg, vanlig sälg
German name:		Sal-Weide
Nederlandse naam:		Boswilg
English name:		Goat Willow
Family:		Salicaceae, Videväxter

Date Picture Taken: April 10, 2009

Life form:		Deciduous shrub or tree (3-5 m)
Stems:		Multi-stemmed shrub that can grow as tall as 15 m; greyish, rough bark; new growth reddish-brown
Leaves:		Large, oval; upperside is bare or hairy, usually dark green and the underside is nice velvet SHAGGY
Flowers:		Dioecious; male trees catkins, pinkish gray and woolly; female trees produce smaller greenish catkins
Flowering Period:		April, May
Fruits:		Capsule is sessile, elongated and gray-green, 5-10 mm long containing numerous minute seeds embedded in fine cottony hairs.
Habitat:		Throughout the country; riverbanks and lake shores

Date Picture Taken: April 12, 2009 Derivation of the botanical name: Salix, Latin name for the willow and meaning "to leap or spring" in reference to its fast growth. Caprea, a wild she-goat. The standard author abbreviation L. is used to indicate Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778), a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, the father of modern taxonomy. Salix caprea, Goat Willow, is thought to come from the first known illustration of the species in Hieronymus Bock's 16th-century Herbal (1498 - 1554), where the tree is shown being eaten by a goat. Hieronymus Bock (Latinised Tragus) was a German botanist, physician, and Lutheran minister. Date Picture Taken: April 10, 2009 Date Picture Taken: April 29, 2011 Date Picture Taken: April 26, 2009