Willow (disambiguation)

A willow is any of the several hundred species of deciduous trees and shrubs in the genus Salix.

Willow or willows may also refer to:

Places

Australia

• The Willows, Queensland
• Willow Tree, New South Wales
• Willows Shoppingtown, major shopping centre in Townsville, Queensland

Canada

• Willow Bunch, Saskatchewan
• Willows Beach, Victoria, British Columbia

United Kingdom

• The Willows, Salford, home of Salford City Reds rugby league club
• Willow Tearooms, tearooms at 217 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, Scotland
• Willows and Wetlands visitor centre, Stoke St Gregory, Somerset
• Willow Walk, a footpath in Oxford

United States

• Willow, Alaska
• Willow, former name of Willows, California
• Willow, Oklahoma
• Willow, Wisconsin
• Willow City, North Dakota
• Willow Glen, San Jose, California
• Willow Island, Nebraska
• Willow (LACMTA Station), station on the Blue line of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
• Willow Meadows, Houston, Texas
• Willow Oak, Florida
• Willow Street, Pennsylvania
• Willows, California

People

• Willow Bay, Kristine Carlin Bay (1963), television presenter and wife of Walt Disney Company CEO Robert Iger
• Willow Palin, daughter of vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin
• Willow Smith, American child actress and singer, daughter of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith

In entertainment

Fictional characters

• Willow Rosenberg, a character created by Joss Whedon for the cult television program, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Willow (comics), a mutant character created by Marvel Comics for their Marvel 2099 run X-Nation 2099
• Catherine Willows, character on the CBS television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
• Grandmother Willow, character in Disney's Pocahontas and Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World
• Lindsey Willows, secondary character on the CBS television program CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
• Old Man Willow, evil character in the J.R.R. Tolkien novel The Fellowship of the Ring
• Whomping Willow, a large, magical and violent tree in the fictional world of Harry Potter
• Willow, a character played by Britt Ekland in The Wicker Man
• Willow (Dreadstar), a fictional telepath created by Jim Starlin for the comic series Dreadstar
• Willow Stark, a character in the NBC soap opera Days of our Lives
• Willow Ufgood, a character from the 1988 film Willow

Gaming

• Willow (arcade game), a platform game based on the 1988 film of the same name
• Willow (video game), a 1989 video game based on the 1988 film

Literature

• "The Willows (story)", a short story by Algernon Blackwood
• Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, a collection of short stories by Japanese author Haruki Murakami
• Wicked Willow, three original novels based on the U.S. television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Willow & Tara (Buffy comic)
• Blue Willow, a Newbery Honor book written by Doris Gates
• The Wind in the Willows, a classic of children's literature written by British novelist Kenneth Grahame

Music

• The Willow Pattern, a one-act comic opera with a libretto by Basil Hood and music by Cecil Cook
• "Weeping Willow" (song), the eighth track from The Verve's 1997 award-winning album Urban Hymns
• Weeping Willow (Joplin), a rag by Scott Joplin
• White Willow (band), an art rock band from Norway
• Willow flute, a type of Scandinavian folk flute consisting of a simple tube with a transverse fipple mouthpiece and no finger holes
• "Willow's Song", a song composed by American composer Paul Giovanni with lyrics by Robert Burns

Other entertainment

• Willow (film), a 1988 fantasy film written by George Lucas and directed by Ron Howard
• Willow (cat), a cat on the BBC television show Blue Peter
• Willow Cricket, an HD cricket-focused sports channel

In science

Botany

• Pussy Willow, a name for several species of willow, when bearing their furry catkins
• Seep willow, Baccharis salicifolia, a flowering shrub from the south-west United States and northern Mexico
• Willow Oak (Quercus phellos), a species of oak with willow-like leaves
• Willow-herb, any of the herbaceous plants in the genus Epilobium, many of which have willow-like leaves
• Willow-leafed pear, Pyrus salicifolia, a small tree from the Middle East, widely grown as an ornamental tree

Zoology

• Willow Beauty, a moth of the family Geometridae
• Willow Flycatcher, a small insect-eating bird of the tyrant flycatcher family
• Willow Grouse, a medium-sized bird in the grouse family
• Willow Tit, a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae
• Willow Warbler or Willow Wren, a small bird from Europe, Asia and Africa
• Willo (Thescelosaurus), a dinosaur fossil thought to include a fossilized heart

Other

• Golden Willow (horse), the youngest horse to ever win the Badminton Horse Trials
• Willow (typeface), typeface that was designed by Tony Forster in 1990
• Willow Man, large outdoor sculpture by Serena de la Hey
• Willow pattern, also known as Blue Willow, distinctive and elaborate pattern used on some pottery plates

See also

• Willow Creek (disambiguation)
• Willow Grove (disambiguation)
• Willow Hill (disambiguation)
• Willow Lake (disambiguation)
• Willow Park (disambiguation)
• Willow River (disambiguation)
• Willow Run (disambiguation)
• Willow School (disambiguation)
• Willow Springs (disambiguation)
• Willow Township (disambiguation)
• Willow Valley (disambiguation)
• The Wind in the Willows (disambiguation)