Conservation status: C
First record: Ray, 1685
Martyn,1727,116.
25 (see also var. repens below)
The low sort of Salix you mention I take to be the Salix angustifolia repens of Park. which I have seen wild in many places, but not in Cambridgeshire. Ray litt.1669–1670,45.
Salix humilis repens Ger. The Narrow–leav'd creeping Dwarf–Willow. [and]
Salix humilis repens rotundifolia. The round–leav'd creeping Dwarf–Willow. Both in the Bog near Gamlingay, where the Asphodelus Lanc. [Narthecium] grows. Ray,1685,16; Martyn,1727,116.
Salix humilis &c. Hinton Moor Th.M.ann.Meth.–Index Loc.10.
Salix repens. Gamlingay. In the Bogs. Martyn,1763,Herbat.XI.
Salix repens b. Gamlingay. In the Bogs. Martyn,1763,Herbat.XI.
Salix rep G(amlingay) B(ogs) Fisher ann. Berkenhout,269.
Gamlingay Bogs, Rev. Leathes, 6.1794, IPS.
Salix repens Creeping Willow. Gamlingay. Relhan,1785.
Creeping Dwarf Willow. Gamlingay. Relhan,1802;1820.
Salix repens – depressa Hoff. Gamlingay. Relhan (LINN.), Bab.ann.Relhan.
Salix repens Gamlingay. Bab.ann.Relhan,404.
Salix repens fusca Gamlingay Heath, J.S.Henslow, 27.4.1827
& 
, BATHG.Salix repens Whitewood and the Heath near Gamlingay, 18.5.1830. Henslow Exc.
Gamlingay, Hb JA Power, 5.1833, RTE.
Salix fusca Gamlingay, Hb JA Power, 18.5.1837, det repens, EF Linton, RTE.
S. repens Gamlingay, Mr Power, 4.5.1838, SWN.
Gamlingay Heath. Bab.1860,216 & Bab.MS.Fl.639.
Heath Wood, Gamlingay, TG Tutin, 1932.
Outskirts of Hayley Wood, by railway line, c.50 yds from level crossing entrance, 11.5.1962, cultivated Hort.Bot.Univ. Cantab., 242/62, 25.5.1965, SM Walters, CGE.
44
Salix repens Triplow. Bab.ann.Relhan,404.
Triplow Common Babington. Maynard MS.13:358,CRO.
Peat–holes, Triplow. Bab.1860,216 & Bab.MS.Fl.639.
45
Hinton Moor JM.ann.Index Loc.
48
Welches Dam, AF.cat.
49
Fire Lots, AF.cat.
56
Quy Fen, sparingly, 1947 & 14.4.1949, DE Coombe Card index.
Swaffham Bulbeck Poor's Fen, 53–64–, DE Coombe, 1949, Field Notebook. Not refound 1986 or 1987, DE Coombe.
Abundant, full bloom, on an uncultivated strip of Bottisham Fen, 531.642–534.646, DE Coombe, n.d., Card index. [=Swaffham Bulbeck Poor's Fen]
57 (see also var fusca below)
Salix repens Wicken Fen. Bab.ann.Relhan,404.
Wicken Fen. Bab.1860,216 & Bab.MS.Fl.639.
Wicken Fen, RI Lynch, 2.9.1881, CUBG Entry Book 132/81.
Wicken Fen, ES Marshall, 5.5.1887, CGE.
Wicken Fen, HD.ann.
Wicken Fen, 1893, AS Shrubbs, DHM.
Wicken Fen, RI Lynch, 12.9.1899, CUBG Entry Book 183/99.
North Breed, near brick ponds, Wicken Fen, Mrs E Wickstead, 8.5.1953, det SM Walters, CGE.
Upware Pits, EA George, 1940.
66
Chippenham Moor, AF.ann.
Salix repens L. subsp repens var. fusca (L.) Wimm. et Grab.
49
Horse Moor, Stonea, JSL Gilmour & TG Tutin, 6.1930, CGE.
56
Bottisham Fen, Hb CM Lemann, 6.1833, det PD Sell 1960, CGE.
57
Wicken Fen, CE Moss, 23.5.1910, det PD Sell 1960, CGE.
Wicken Fen, R Morse, 15.8.1926, det PD Sell 1960, CGE.
Wicken Fen, EF Warburg, 22.5.1932, CGE.
W end of Sedge Fen Drove, Wicken Fen, 553.705, PD Sell 61/743, 3.10.1961, CGE.
Area to W of line of Salix pentandra, Wicken Fen, 558.708, PD Sell 86/56, 12.6.1986, CGE.
Wicken Fen, 57K, P Stebbings, 17.6.1991, [R].
Salix repens L. subsp repens var. repens
Gamlingay, JS Henslow, 27.4.1827, det PD Sell 1960, S.repens L, subsp repens, ?var repens, CGE.
Gamlingay, JS Henslow, 16.8.1831, det PD Sell as ?var repens 1960, CGE.
Bog near Gamlingay, WA Leighton, Hb CC Babington, 19.5.1831, det PD Sell as var ? repens, 1960, CGE.
