Using Context Clues

The Willow Tree

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The Willow Tree

The Willow tree is a large family of trees and shrubs that grow along streams and in other moist places. The black willow is native to Wisconsin and the weeping and crack willows are exotics brought into Wisconsin from somewhere else.

Here's how to identify willows by their leaves and twigs:

The Willow Tree

The Willow tree is a large family of trees and shrubs that grow along streams and in other moist places. The black willow is native to Wisconsin and the weeping and crack willows are exotics brought into Wisconsin from somewhere else.

Here's how to identify willows by their leaves and twigs:

The Willow Tree

The Willow tree is a large family of trees and shrubs that grow along streams and in other moist places. The black willow is native to Wisconsin and the weeping and crack willows are exotics brought into Wisconsin from somewhere else.

Here's how to identify willows by their leaves and twigs:

The Willow Tree

The Willow tree is a large family of trees and shrubs that grow along streams and in other moist places. The black willow is native to Wisconsin and the weeping and crack willows are exotics brought into Wisconsin from somewhere else.

Here's how to identify willows by their leaves and twigs:

The Willow Tree

The Willow tree is a large family of trees and shrubs that grow along streams and in other moist places. The black willow is native to Wisconsin and the weeping and crack willows are exotics brought into Wisconsin from somewhere else.

Here's how to identify willows by their leaves and twigs:

The Willow Tree

The Willow tree is a large family of trees and shrubs that grow along streams and in other moist places. The black willow is native to Wisconsin and the weeping and crack willows are exotics brought into Wisconsin from somewhere else.

Ex-o-tics

The Size of Willow Trees

Willows grow 35-50 feet high with a diameter of 6-25 inches around. The black willow grows an average of 30-40 feet high and might only grow as a shrub with a short trunk and spreading branches.

Here's how to identify willows by their leaves and twigs:

The Size of Willow Trees

Willows grow 35-50 feet high with a diameter of 6-25 inches around. The black willow grows an average of 30-40 feet high and might only grow as a shrub with a short trunk and spreading branches.

Here's how to identify willows by their leaves and twigs:

The Size of Willow Trees

Willows grow 35-50 feet high with a diameter of 6-25 inches around. The black willow grows an average of 30-40 feet high and might only grow as a shrub with a short trunk and spreading branches.

Here's how to identify willows by their leaves and twigs:

Do you recognize any part of this word?

Peach-Tree Willow

Peach-tree willow leaves are long, narrow, greenish-yellow with whitish undersides that grow on long, slender, somewhat twisted stems with branches that droop.

Do you recognize any part of this word?

White and Crack Willow

Leaves are large with a saw-toothed shape. Twigs break easily from the branches.

Pussy Willow

Leaves are narrow with widely spaced teeth, rounded, dark green atop with a whitish bloom below.

Pussy Willow

Leaves are narrow with widely spaced teeth, rounded, dark green atop with a whitish bloom below.

This clue is an antonym, or opposite.

Pussy Willow

Leaves are narrow with widely spaced teeth, rounded, dark green atop with a whitish bloom below.

Weeping Willow

Leaves are whitened or pale beneath, long branches hang down towards the ground.

Weeping Willow

Leaves are whitened or pale beneath, long branches hang down towards the ground.

The missing word is

followed by a definition.

Weeping Willow

Leaves are whitened or pale beneath, long branches hang down towards the ground.

Willow Bark

The bark is thick, rough, and flaky with dark brown to grey coloration on large trees.

The context clue comes before this

missing word.

Willow Bark

The bark is thick, rough, and flaky with dark brown to grey coloration on large trees.

If you are still not sure of the word, look at the

chunks in the word. Do you see a smaller word

that you recognize?

Wood Use

Wood from willows is light brown, soft, weak, flexible, coarse-grained. It has thin whitish sapwood. Wood is used for fuel, erosion control, basket-making, landscape plantings, windbreaks, and charcoal.