Goodding's Willow

More info for the terms: shrub, tree

Goodding's willow
black willow
Dudley willow
valley willow
western black willow

TAXONOMY:
The scientific name of Goodding's willow is Salix gooddingii Ball.
(Salicaceae) [16,19,30].

Some authorities consider S. gooddingii a western variety of S. nigra.
Dorn, however, considered them distinct species, citing differences in
chemistry [30,34].


LIFE FORM:
Tree, Shrub

FEDERAL LEGAL STATUS:
No special status

OTHER STATUS:
NO-ENTRY



DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Salix gooddingii
GENERAL DISTRIBUTION:
Goodding's willow is distributed from northern California to western
Colorado and south to southern California and Texas. It is also found
in river valleys of northern Mexico [16,18,19,29,31].

Goodding's willow is distributed from northern California to western Colorado and south to southern California and Texas. It is also found in river valleys of northern Mexico [16,18,19,29,31]. Distribution of Goodding's willow. Map courtesy of USDA, NRCS. 2018. The PLANTS Database. National Plant Data Team, Greensboro, NC [2018, June 21] [29].

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Goodding's willow is dominant in many riparian communities of the West,
where it frequently codominates with Fremont cottonwood (Populus
fremontii) [24,27,28]. It is listed as a dominant plant species in the
following published classifications:

Classification of riparian habitat in the Southwest [21]
Southwestern riparian plant communities: site characteristics,
tree species distributions, and size-class structures [28]
Terrestrial natural communities of California [11]

Common plant associates of Goodding's willow are Arizona sycamore
(Platanus wrightii), mesquite (Prosopis spp.), desertwillow (Chilopsis
linearis), and southwestern condalia (Condalia lyciodes) [7,9].

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Tree, Shrub

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Catkins of Goodding's willow appear in early March. Seeds ripen and are dispersed in early spring [5,18,27].

More info for the terms: root crown, root sucker, shrub

Tree with adventitious-bud root crown/soboliferous species root sucker Tall shrub, adventitious-bud root crown Initial-offsite colonizer (off-site, initial community)

The scientific name of Goodding's willow is Salix gooddingii Ball.
(Salicaceae) [16,19,30].

Some authorities consider S. gooddingii a western variety of S. nigra.
Dorn, however, considered them distinct species, citing differences in
chemistry [30,34].

Salix gooddingii is a species of willow known by the common name Goodding's willow, or Goodding's black willow. It was named for its collector, Leslie Newton Goodding.

Salix gooddingii is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, where it grows in moist and wet habitat in many types of habitat from mountains to desert. It is a common riparian species. It is a tree growing to 3 to 30 m (9.8 to 98.4 ft) tall, with thick, furrowed, shreddy bark and many thin branches. The leaves are up to 13 cm long, generally lance-shaped, and finely serrated along the edges. The young leaves are coated in hairs. The inflorescence is a catkin of flowers up to 8 cm long.