Salix alaxensis subsp. longistylis (Rydb.) Hult.
 
FamilySalicaceae — APG family: Salicaceae
SynonymsSalix alaxensis var. longistylis (Rydb.) Schneid., Salix longistylis Rydb.
DescriptionSimilar to subsp. alaxensis, but young twigs show a bluish bloom, and lack the felt of the typical plant.
EcologyIn McKinley Park to 600 meters.
Taxonomy
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Replaces subsp. alaxensis at low altitudes, but often occurs in company with it, and in Alaska is regarded simply as an altitudinal race, with similar habitats.
Hultén's Flora About

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.