Quoting%20commentary for Sukkah 3:3

עֲרָבָה גְזוּלָה וִיבֵשָׁה, פְּסוּלָה. שֶׁל אֲשֵׁרָה וְשֶׁל עִיר הַנִּדַּחַת, פְּסוּלָה. נִקְטַם רֹאשָׁהּ, נִפְרְצוּ עָלֶיהָ, וְהַצַּפְצָפָה, פְּסוּלָה. כְּמוּשָׁה, וְשֶׁנָּשְׁרוּ מִקְצָת עָלֶיהָ, וְשֶׁל בַּעַל, כְּשֵׁרָה:

A stolen or dried out aravah is pasul. (An aravah) from an asheirah or from a city gone astray (after idolatry) is pasul. If its head were severed, [(This, too, is not the halachah)] or if its leaves were broken, and (if it were) a tzaftzafa [a kind of aravah with a round leaf], it is pasul. If it were withered, if some of its leaves had fallen, or if it grew in a field [and not in a brook], it is kasher, [Scripture stating (Leviticus 23:40): "willows of the brook," only because that is the common instance.]

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