Salix eriocephala Richard Lynch the bone apple asks for

the bone apple asks for full sun to part shade and little else

the species wants cool

Needs space and strong support to climb on

Where a full sweetbay would overwhelm

poor rocky or sandy or clay soil

Salix eriocephala Richard Lynch the bone apple asks forSalix eriocephala, the heart leaved or Missouri River willow, is a graceful native shrub, sometimes a modest multi stemmed tree, of riverbanks and wet meadows across northern and eastern North America. The plant rises on several trunks clad in coarse gray bark, reaching roughly eight to a dozen feet in the garden and more in wild thickets, and the epithet eriocephala, meaning woolly headed, points to the soft, silky catkins that give the willow much