SALIX lanata

'Woolly Willow'. An attractive, slow-growing shrub usually 0.6-1.2m high, or occasionally more, with ovate to rounded, silvery-grey downy leaves and stout, erect, yellowish-grey woolly catkins in spring. The female catkins elongate considerably in fruit, sometimes measuring 10cm long. A rare native alpine species suitable for a rock garden.(1)