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§1 Plant
Salix fragilis L.
vernacular crack willow — species · Salicaceae
PlateNo public-domain or CC photograph located.
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Salicaceae Mirb.
- Genus
- Salix
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 361 counties across 32 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 361 counties across 32 states/territories.
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 5 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 25 I ▾
- Adams 17001
- Calhoun 17013
- Champaign 17019
- Christian 17021
- Cook 17031
- De Witt 17039
- DeKalb 17037
- DuPage 17043
- Grundy 17063
- Jackson 17077
- Jo Daviess 17085
- Kankakee 17091
- Knox 17095
- Lake 17097
- Livingston 17105
- Massac 17127
- McHenry 17111
- Pike 17149
- Pope 17151
- Sangamon 17167
- Stark 17175
- Tazewell 17179
- Vermilion 17183
- Williamson 17199
- Winnebago 17201
Indiana view state ↗ 21 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 15 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 22 I ▾
- Bay 26017
- Berrien 26021
- Cheboygan 26031
- Chippewa 26033
- Delta 26041
- Grand Traverse 26055
- Houghton 26061
- Isabella 26073
- Kalamazoo 26077
- Kent 26081
- Lapeer 26087
- Leelanau 26089
- Mackinac 26097
- Marquette 26103
- Menominee 26109
- Monroe 26115
- Oakland 26125
- Saginaw 26145
- Shiawassee 26155
- St. Clair 26147
- St. Joseph 26149
- Van Buren 26159
Minnesota view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 5 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 5 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 19 I ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 2 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 33 I ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Chautauqua 36013
- Clinton 36019
- Columbia 36021
- Delaware 36025
- Erie 36029
- Greene 36039
- Jefferson 36045
- Kings 36047
- Madison 36053
- Monroe 36055
- Nassau 36059
- New York 36061
- Oneida 36065
- Ontario 36069
- Orange 36071
- Putnam 36079
- Queens 36081
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Schenectady 36093
- Schoharie 36095
- Suffolk 36103
- Sullivan 36105
- Tioga 36107
- Tompkins 36109
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
- Wyoming 36121
- Yates 36123
Ohio view state ↗ 36 I ▾
- Adams 39001
- Allen 39003
- Ashtabula 39007
- Athens 39009
- Auglaize 39011
- Belmont 39013
- Clinton 39027
- Columbiana 39029
- Coshocton 39031
- Cuyahoga 39035
- Delaware 39041
- Erie 39043
- Fairfield 39045
- Franklin 39049
- Hardin 39065
- Henry 39069
- Hocking 39073
- Holmes 39075
- Jefferson 39081
- Lake 39085
- Licking 39089
- Logan 39091
- Lorain 39093
- Medina 39103
- Monroe 39111
- Noble 39121
- Ottawa 39123
- Portage 39133
- Richland 39139
- Scioto 39145
- Stark 39151
- Summit 39153
- Trumbull 39155
- Tuscarawas 39157
- Union 39159
- Wayne 39169
Oregon view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 44 I ▾
- Adams 42001
- Allegheny 42003
- Armstrong 42005
- Beaver 42007
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bradford 42015
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Cambria 42021
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Clearfield 42033
- Clinton 42035
- Crawford 42039
- Cumberland 42041
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Erie 42049
- Huntingdon 42061
- Juniata 42067
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lawrence 42073
- Lehigh 42077
- Lycoming 42081
- McKean 42083
- Mercer 42085
- Mifflin 42087
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Northumberland 42097
- Perry 42099
- Philadelphia 42101
- Potter 42105
- Schuylkill 42107
- Snyder 42109
- Susquehanna 42115
- Tioga 42117
- Union 42119
- Warren 42123
- Washington 42125
- Westmoreland 42129
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 I ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Utah view state ↗ 19 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 22 I ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Arlington 51013
- Bedford 51019
- Buchanan 51027
- Dickenson 51051
- Fairfax 51059
- Fauquier 51061
- Hampton (city) 51650
- Isle of Wight 51093
- James City 51095
- Loudoun 51107
- Montgomery 51121
- Northampton 51131
- Rappahannock 51157
- Rockbridge 51163
- Rockingham 51165
- Scott 51169
- Smyth 51173
- Suffolk (city) 51800
- Surry 51181
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
- York 51199
Washington view state ↗ 2 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 7 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SAFR ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5372829 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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