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{{SPlantbox
| color = lightgreen
|familia=Salicaceae
| name = ''Salix discolor''
|genus=Salix
| image = Salix discolor (USDA).jpg
|species=discolor
| image_width = 240px
|taxo_author=Muhl.
| image_caption = Shoot with leaves
|common_name=Pussy Willow, American Pussy Willow, American Willow
| status =
|name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|habit=tree
|habit_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|Max ht box=25
|Max ht metric=ft
|height_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|Max wd box=15
|Max wd metric=ft
|width_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|lifespan=perennial
|life_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|exposure=sun
|sun_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|water=wet, moist
|water_ref=Sunset National Garden Book
|features=deciduous, flowers
|flower_season=early spring, mid spring, late spring, early winter, mid winter, late winter
|flower_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|Temp Metric=°F
|min_zone=2
|usda_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|max_zone=9
|sunset_zones=1-24, 30-45
|image=Salix discolor (USDA).jpg
|image_width=200
|image_caption=Shoot with leaves
}}
'''''Salix discolor''''' ('''American Willow'''<ref name=grin>Germplasm Resources Information Network: [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?102704 ''Salix discolor'']</ref>) is a species of [[willow]] native to [[North America]], one of two species commonly called [[Pussy Willow]].
[[Image:pussy willow branch.jpg|thumb|left|Branch with catkins in early spring]]
It is native to the northern forests and wetlands of [[Canada]] ([[British Columbia]] east to [[Newfoundland and Labrador|Newfoundland]]) and the northeastern contiguous [[United States]] ([[Idaho]] south to [[Wyoming]], and east to [[Maine]] and [[Maryland]]).<ref name=grin/><ref name=bc>Plants of British Columbia: [http://linnet.geog.ubc.ca/Atlas/Atlas.aspx?sciname=Salix+discolor ''Salix discolor'']</ref><ref name=boreal>Borealforests: [http://www.borealforest.org/shrubs/shrub44.htm ''Salix discolor'']</ref>
It is a weak-wooded [[deciduous]] [[shrub]] or small [[tree]] growing to 6 m tall, with brown shoots. The [[leaf|leaves]] are oval, 3–14 cm long and 1-3.5 cm broad, green above and downy grey-white beneath.
The [[flower]]s are soft silky silvery [[catkin]]s, borne in early spring before the new leaves appear, with the male and female catkins on different plants ([[plant sexuality|dioecious]]); the male catkins mature yellow at [[pollen]] release.
The [[fruit]] is a small [[capsule (fruit)|capsule]] 7–12 mm long containing numerous minute seeds embedded in cottony down.<ref name=bc/><ref name=boreal/>
As with the closely related ''[[Salix caprea]]'' (European Pussy Willow), it is also often grown for cut flowers. See [[Pussy Willow]] for further cultural information and other uses.
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'''''[[Salix]] discolor'''''. Pussy Willow. A shrub or short-trunked tree, 10-20 ft. high: buds very large and nearly black: lvs. smooth and bright green above, whitish beneath, irregularly crenate-serrate: aments appear early in spring, before the lvs., closely sessile, enveloped in long, silky hairs. E. N. Amer.—Worthy of more extended cult. and thriving in dry ground.
| familia = [[Salicaceae]]
}}
}}
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==References==
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
<!--- xxxxx *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381 -->
<!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 -->
<!--- xxxxx *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608 -->
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