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Salix × pendulina; photograph (c) jamie-aa, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) jamie-aa, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2026-07-07

Salix × pendulina Wender.

Wisconsin weeping willow; Weeping crack willow; Pendulous willow; Niobe willow

Salicaceae

A hybrid: S. alba × S. babylonica × S. euxina, the parents Kew's World Checklist states for it (WCVP, RBG Kew).

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Summary

Salix babylonica is a species of willow native to dry areas of northern China, Korea, Mongolia, Japan, and Siberia but cultivated for millennia elsewhere in Asia, being traded along the Silk Road to southwest Asia and Europe.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Salix babylonica", CC BY-SA 4.0; its title is one of this species' older names (GBIF Backbone), which is the proof that the article is this species'.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Native range not verified: no WCVP distribution with native status for this name, so records cannot be told from cultivation and no habitat climate is derived. 141 of the 1643 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

No native range: WCVP lists no region where it is native.
Openly licensed records, not tested against the stated range, framed on where they fall.
NativeWCVP lists no region where it is native; the regions it does list are named here. · introduced: Great Britain, Ireland, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, France, Romania, Krym, South European Russia, Algeria, Morocco, Mauritius, Tadzhikistan, Japan, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Fiji, Tubuai Is., Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, New York, Vermont, California, New Mexico, Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, District of Columbia, Mexico Central, Bermuda, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Chile Central, Chile North, Tristan da Cunha · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“tree” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo verified native range for this name: WCVP has no entry with native status, and a checklist that only reports presence cannot tell a wild record from a garden one. The map shows 1064 openly licensed records of 1643 untested against any range; no map marker or climate is derived from them, and no sheet is built from them. 141 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

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Photographs: author not stated, no rights reserved · CC0 (2); (c) Sharon Smith, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Owen and Carol Fawcett., some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Gerry van Tonder, some rights reserved (CC BY).

Other Salix 159 in the reference

Salix acmophylla Salix acmophylla Common Middle East willow Photo: CC BY, Nachman bonesSalix acutifolia Salix acutifolia Siberian violet-willow Photo: CC0, author not statedSalix aegyptiaca Salix aegyptiaca Salicaceae Photo: Public domain, Daderot Salix aeruginosa Salicaceae Salix alatavica Salicaceae Salix alaxensis Salix alaxensis Felt-leaf willow Photo: CC BY, Ingvild RiskaSalix alba Salix alba White willow Photo: CC BY, Codrin BucurSalix alpina Salix alpina Salicaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedSalix amygdaloides Salix amygdaloides Peach-leaf willow Photo: CC0, author not statedSalix apennina Salix apennina Large-leaved willow Photo: CC BY, Milan ChytrýSalix apoda Salix apoda Salicaceae Photo: CC BY, Dmitriy BochkovSalix appendiculata Salix appendiculata Salicaceae Photo: CC BY, Tom and T Herman all 160 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Salix alba f. pendula; Salix alba f. tristis; Salix alba var. tristis; Salix alba var. vitellina-tristis; Salix babylonica subsp. salamonii and 9 more. (GBIF Backbone)

Under another author Salix alba x babylonica and Salix alba × babylonica is an older name of this species, not Salix alba, a species of the reference; Salix babylonica x euxina and Salix babylonica × euxina and Salix babylonica × fragilis is an older name of this species, not Salix babylonica, a species of the reference. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Salicaceae
Described by
Wender.
Native to
not verified
Records
1643 georeferenced · 1064 open · range not tested

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry lists no native region, only 56 where it is introduced
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 103 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (53 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 15 at a herbarium, 35 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22native range not verified: no WCVP distribution with native status for this name, so records cannot be told from cultivation and no habitat climate is derived
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22Wikipedia redirects Salix pendulina to Salix babylonica, an older name of this species (Salix babylonica)
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 80 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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