White Willow (Salix alba)

Family: Salicaceae | Edibility: Edible (1/5)

Main Bloom Time: Early spring, Mid spring. Form: Rounded, Upright or erect.

Edible Parts & Harvest Seasons

Edible Parts: Leaves, Shoots, Bark/Inner Bark

Harvest Seasons: Early Summer, Fall, Spring, Winter

Flavor & Culinary Uses

flavour, especially when fresh, it is used as a famine food when all else fails. — Inner bark - raw or cooked.; It can be dried, ground into a powder and added to cereal flour then used in making bread etc.; A very bitter flavour, especially when fresh, it is used as a famine food when all else fails.; Leaves and young shoots - raw or cooked.

Habitat & North American Range

By streams and rivers, marshes, woods and wet fens on richer soils. (Zone 2, Zone 3, Zone 4, Zone 5, Zone 6, Zone 7, Zone 8)