Iceberg Alley ®, a native plant discovered in Canada, is a cold hardy shrub that makes a great addition to any cold climate landscape. This shrub’s powdery, silver foliage adds unique texture and contrast, especially when combined with other plants.

Jul 7, 2021 · Iceberg Alley is a new variety of sageleaf willow that is rock-solid hardy and offers northern gardeners another plant with silver foliage.

Photos and information about Minnesota flora - Sage-leaved Willow: small shrub; alternate leaves to 3½ inches long, narrowly elliptic, white-woolly underside, mostly toothless; woolly hairy fruit on stalks to 2.5mm long

Iceberg Alley® is a North American native cultivar discovered by the Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador Botanical Garden. This small shrub's powdery, silver foliage adds …

A Salix candida, commonly called sageleaf willow, Salix Iceberg Alley has an upright, rounded habit and a rapid growth rate, maturing to 6 feet tall and wide under optimal conditions in warm climates, somewhat smaller (as small as 3 feet) in cold regions.

Salix candida is a shrub of high pH wetlands (usually fens). Its usual form, with white-hoary leaves and branchlets, makes it very recognizable in the field. Fens, swamps. Non-native: introduced (intentionally or unintentionally); has become naturalized.

A compact, dense native shrub that presents powdery, silver foliage that adds texture and contrast when combined with other shrubs; pretty silver catkins with red stamens in spring; best in full sun; tolerates moist soils and pruning.

The Sageleaf willow is a short lived, fast growing, low shrub native to most of Canada and the Northern United States. It commonly grows in bogs, riverbanks and generally wet areas. Young twigs are densely covered with fine hairs (pubescent); older twigs gray-brown to yellow. Leaves are narrow, slightly hairy above and densely wooly beneath.