It is native to California, Nevada, and the north-western United States.

[2] It grows in subalpine and alpine climates in mountain habitats such as talus and streambanks.

Salix eastwoodiae is a shrub growing up to 4 m (13 ft) tall, with branches yellowish, brown, red, or purplish in color and coated in short hairs, sometimes becoming hairless.

The leaves are narrowly or widely lance-shaped and up to 10 cm long, hairy when new and becoming hairless.

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