Form: Spreading round
Growth Rate: Fast
Drought Tolerance: Low
Size: 30-50’ tall by 20-40’ wide
Zone: 4-9
Salt Tolerance: Moderate
Light Requirements: Full sun to partial shade
Soil Requirements: Well-drained, very moist, fertile soil; but will tolerate most soil types
Bark: Smooth; olive to yellow brown; glabrous; matures to dark grayish brown or blackish gray; shallow fissures and ridges become rough with age
Flower: Yellow green; inconspicuous capsules; flowers unisexual, male catkins at the same time as leaf emergence; blooms in Spring
Fruit: Dry, hard, brown, narrowlyovoid, sessile capsule;
inconspicuous
Foliage: Alternate, simple, entire, linear to lanceolate, glabrous, leaf margins unevenly spiculose-serrate, petiole are tomentose, glandular above the tip; yellowish, light green leaves above, glaucous on underside; showy, yellow Fall color Screening, specimen, near ponds or lakes, graceful accent plant