| Salix athabascensis Raup | |||
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| Family | Salicaceae — APG family: Salicaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Salix fallax Raup. | ||
| Description | Erect shrub, up to 6 dm tall, with gray, hairy twigs; leaves elliptical or obovate, acute or acuminate, entire or minutely glandular-dentate on margin and silky- pubescent above when young, glaucous and with appressed hairs below; catkins on leafy peduncles; capsules with appressed pubescence; bracts obtuse, brown, silky- haired; styles about 0.3 mm long. | ||
| Ecology | Margins of pools, muskeg. |
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.