Salix caprea
Tracheophyta
›Magnoliopsida›Salicaceae›Salix›Salix caprea
Ecology
A shrub or tree which grows in open woodland and wood margins, scrub and hedgerows, and around rocky lake and streamsides. It colonises waste ground and can tolerate drier and more base-rich soils than S. cinerea. 0?760 m (Breadalbanes, Mid Perth).
Status
Native
Trends
The range of this species is similar to that in the 1962 Atlas, but local increases in abundance have been noted in England along disused railways. It may have been over-recorded for S. x reichardtii or large-leaved forms of S. cinerea. Subsp. caprea occurs throughout the range of the species; subsp. sphacelata is mapped separately.
World Distribution
Eurasian Boreo-temperate element.
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Shipley, vc63
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Shipley, vc63
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Stainforth, Hatfield, vc63
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Stainforth, Hatfield, vc63
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Wigan, vc59
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Broad Habitats
Broadleaved, mixed and yew woodland
Light (Ellenberg): 7
Moisture (Ellenberg): 7
Reaction (Ellenberg): 7
Nitrogen (Ellenberg): 7
Salt Tolerance (Ellenberg): 0
January Mean Temperature (Celsius): 3.4
July Mean Temperature (Celsius): 14.6
Annual Precipitation (mm): 1080
Height (cm): 1000
Perennation - primary
Perennial
Life Form - primary
Mega-, meso- and microphanerophyte
Woodiness
Woody
Clonality - primary
Little or no vegetative spread
Count of 10km squares in Great Britain: 2412
Count of 10km squares in Ireland: 620
Count of 10km squares in the Channel Isles: 3
Atlas Change Index: 0.34
Weighted Changed Factor: -9
Weighted Change Factor Confidence (90%)
22
JNCC Designations
NBNSYS0000003868