| Salix commutata Bebb | |||
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| Family | Salicaceae — APG family: Salicaceae | ||
| Description | Shrub up to 3 meters tall; young twigs densely gray-hairy; leaves elliptical or obovate to broadly oblanceolate, abruptly pointed, densely grayish-tomentose on both sides when young, in age glabrescent; catkins on leafy peduncles; bracts densely woolly; capsules reddish, glabrous; stamens 2; filaments glabrous. | ||
| Ecology | Alpine meadows, to at least 1,800 meters in the Yukon. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Forms with more serrated, less pubescent leaves, which have been referred to var. denudata Bebb, are probably of hybrid origin. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.