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National Champion Fendler's Willow Salix fendleriana Willow Family — Willow Genus Big Timber, Montana Circumference = inches (33.3 feet) Height = feet Average Crown Spread = feet Total Points = Nominated: by: Cloned: 2001 by: Martin Flanagan

Fendler's Willow is the largest native willow in the Yellowstone region. It is a rough-bark tree growing singly or in twos and threes from a common stump. The long, taper-pointed leaves have a tendency to cluster on the ends of the twigs. The wood is not durable in the soil . Old trees are commonly hollow. It grows along the Lamar and lower Yellowstone. Salix Fendleriana reaches its upper limit at 6000 feet where it is a slender shrub 10 feet high. On the lower Yellowstone it makes small trees a foot in diameter and forty feet high. It is distinguished in early spring by the lemon-yellow twigs and branches. It does not send up suckers or spread by the roots as readily as many other willows. When cut, the old stump frequently dies.

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