| Salix subcoerulea Piper | |||
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| Family | Salicaceae — APG family: Salicaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Salix drummondiana var. subcoerulea (Piper) Ball. | ||
| Description | Shrub 2-3 meters tall, with dark, glabrous, pruinose twigs; leaves oblanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, with margin entire or nearly so, green and thinly pubescent above, densely silvery-pubescent below; catkins sessile, appearing before leaves; bracts brown to blackish, somewhat hairy; capsules on short pedicels, - silver-silky, with style about 1.5 mm long. | ||
| Ecology | Wet meadows, margins of streams. Described from Wallowa County, Oregon. |
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.