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
Canada
United Kingdom
United States
- Willow, Alaska
- Willow, former name of Willows, California
- Willow, Florida, an unincorporated area in Manatee County, Florida
- Willow, Illinois
- Willow, Kentucky
- Willow, Bracken County, Kentucky; see Kentucky Route 22
- Willow, Lee County, Kentucky
- Willow, New York, a hamlet in Ulster County, New York
- Willow, Oklahoma
- Willow, Wisconsin, a town in Richland County, Wisconsin
- Willow Branch, Indiana
- Willow City, North Dakota
- Willow Glen, San Jose, California
- Willow Island, Nebraska
- Willow Street station, a station on the Blue line of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
- Willow Meadows, Houston, Texas
- Willow, Michigan, unincorporated community
- Willow Oak, Florida
- Willow Street, Pennsylvania
- Willows, California
- Willow, Wisconsin
- Willows, Wisconsin, a fictional populated place
- Salem Willows, Salem, Massachusetts
People
Books
Film and TV
Characters
- Catherine Willows, a character in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
- Grandmother Willow, a character in Disney's Pocahontas and Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World
- Lindsey Willows, a secondary character in '
- Willow (comics), a mutant character created by Marvel Comics for their Marvel 2099 run X-Nation 2099
- Willow Park, a character in The Owl House
- Willow Rosenberg, a character in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Willow Stark, a character in Days of Our Lives
- Willow Ufgood, the title character from the 1988 film Willow
- A character from '
- A playable character in the indie survival game Don't Starve and its sequel Don't Starve Together
- A character in the 1973 film The Wicker Man
- A character in the 2006 film The Wicker Man
- A bird in the video game Angry Birds Stella and The Angry Birds Movie
- A character in the Harry Potter-based fan fiction My Immortal
- Professor Willow, a major NPC in the AR mobile game Pokémon GO
Video gaming
Music
Albums
Songs
- "Willow" (song), a 2020 song by Taylor Swift from Evermore
- "Willow" (Joan Armatrading song), 1977
- "Willow", a 2023 song by Kamelot from the album The Awakening
- "Willow", a 2023 song by Reneé Rapp from the album Snow Angel
- "Willow", a 2013 song by Said the Whale from the album Hawaiii
- "Willow", a 2013 song by Scale the Summit from the album The Migration
- "Willow", a song from the musical Venice which first opened in 2010
- "Willow song", Desdemona's song in operatic settings of Shakespeare's play Othello, first written down in 1583
- "Willow's Song", a 1973 song composed by American composer Paul Giovanni with lyrics by Robert Burns
- "Willows", a 2015 song by Vanessa Carlton from Liberman
- "Tit-willow", Koko's song in the 1885 Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera The Mikado, which first opened in 1885
Science
- 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
- Willo (Thescelosaurus), a dinosaur fossil thought to include a fossilized heart
- Willow-herb, any of the herbaceous plants in the genus Epilobium, many of which have willow-like leaves
- Willow oak (Quercus phellos), a species of oak with willow-like leaves
- Willow processor, a quantum computer processor developed by Google
Other
- The Allied reporting name for the Japanese biplane trainer Yokosuka K5Y during World War II
- USCGC Willow, several U.S. Coast Guard cutters
- Willow (cat), cat owned by U.S. President Joe Biden
- Willow Man, large outdoor sculpture by Serena de la Hey
- Willow Mountain, summit in Texas
- Willow pattern, also known as Blue Willow, distinctive and elaborate pattern used on some pottery plates
- Willow project, oil development project in Alaska
- Willey (textile machine), also willey, willow, twilley
- Willow (typeface), typeface that was designed by Tony Forster in 1990
- Willows, an API for Unix systems to allow recompilation of Windows programs for Linux, featured by Caldera OpenLinux
- Golden Willow (horse), the youngest horse to ever win the Badminton Horse Trials
- A cricket bat, which is made of willow tree wood
See also