Salix pedicellata subsp. pedicellata is native to some of the countries around the Mediterranean, in Europe (Portugal, Spain, Sicily, mainland Greece, Crete, doubtfully mainland Italy), western North Africa (Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia) and Western Asia (the East Aegean Islands, Turkey and Lebanon-Syria). It has been introduced to Ethiopia.[5] Salix pedicellata subsp. canariensis is native to Madeira and the Canary Islands.[3]