| Salix padophylla Rydb. | |||
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| Family | Salicaceae — APG family: Salicaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Salix pseudomonticola Ball. | ||
| Description | Shrub at least 3 meters tall; twigs reddish-brown, shiny, pubescent when young, glabrescent in age; leaves ovate to obovate, acute, often cordate at base, glandular- serrate along entire margin, glabrous, paler beneath; young, undeveloped leaves reddish; catkins sessile; bracts dark brown, somewhat acute, long-hairy; capsules glabrous, lanceolate when: young, long-pedicellated, with style about 1 mm long. | ||
| Ecology | Along streams, in forests, at low altitudes. Described from Turkey Creek, Colo- rado. |
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.