EPPO Global Database

Salix alba(SAXAL)

Overview
Code created in: 2003-04-09

Basic information
  • EPPO Code: SAXAL
  • Preferred name: Salix alba
  • Authority: Linnaeus

Notes

Mediterranean and Central Europe, Black Sea, Caucasus, Siberia, Central Asia, China. Widely grown for wickerwork. Introduced in northern Europe and eastern North America. 

WSSA list of weeds in North America


Other scientific names
Name Authority
Salix alba subsp. alba Linnaeus

Common names
Name Language
bat willow English
water willow English
white willow English
Falber German
Felbe German
Kappweide German
Silberweide German
weiße Weide German
Weißweide German
aubier French
osier blanc French
plon blanc French
saudre French
saule argenté French
saule blanc French
saule commun French
sausse French
vuisier French
blina Spanish
mimbrera blanca Spanish
pastizales Spanish (MX)
salguera Spanish
sao Spanish
sauce Spanish
sauce blanco Spanish
saz Spanish
caporniolo Italian
salcio da pertiche Italian
salice bianco Italian
salice comune Italian
schietwilg Dutch
salgueiro-blanco Portuguese
sinceiro Portuguese
vimeiro-branco Portuguese
vitpil Swedish
верба Russian
ветла Russian
ива белая Russian
ракита Russian
hvid pil Danish
kvitpil Norwegian
valkosalava Finnish
ak söğüt Turkish
aravah levanah Hebrew
עֲרָבָה לְבָנָה Hebrew
wierzba biała Polish
fehér fűz Hungarian
shelg Albanian
berguera Aragonese
chopo salzerito Aragonese
salbimbre Aragonese
salguera Aragonese
salzera Aragonese
sauce blanco Aragonese
zume zuria Basque
бяла върба Bulgarian
salze blanc Catalan
bái liǔ Chinese
白柳 Chinese
bijela vrba Croatian
vrba bílá Czech
hõberemmelgas Estonian
salgueiro branco Galician
αδκιά Greek
εθιά Greek
ιδκιά Greek
ιτιά λευκή Greek
σιέλκι Greek
σκλίαρος Greek
baltais vītols Latvian
baltasis gluosnis Lithuanian
auba Occitan
aubedère Occitan
bensilhe Occitan
bimét Occitan
bimoère Occitan
birmassa Occitan
salìgue Occitan
saude Occitan
sàuse Occitan
saussenco Occitan
saussigot Occitan
salcie Romanian
жалосна жута врба Serbian
vŕba biela Slovak
bela vrba Slovene
верба біла Ukrainian
helygen wen Welsh