About Earthynature of Britain
  1. Home
  2. Species
  3. White Willow
Species · Flowering plants

White Willow

Salix alba

2,890Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
86Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan6
Feb12
Mar11
Apr108
May215
Jun475
Jul570
Aug583
Sep359
Oct256
Nov56
Dec7

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England164
2Norfolk England131
3Sefton England93
4Cambridgeshire England88
5Suffolk England84
6Essex England72
7Herefordshire, County of England59
8Oxfordshire England50
9St. Helens England35
10Liverpool England31
11Gloucestershire England27
12City of Edinburgh Scotland25
13Halton England25
14Surrey England22
15Portsmouth England21
2,571 England68 Scotland9 Wales3 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 86 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,890
Peak month
August
Counties with records
86
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Salix alba
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
17,583
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Malpighiales
Family
Salicaceae
Genus
Salix
Name with authority
Salix alba L.
Contributing datasets
42

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q156918 · GBIF 5372513