| Salix reticulata L. | |||
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| Family | Salicaceae — APG family: Salicaceae | ||
| Common name | netted willow | ||
| Description | Prostrate trailing shrub; young twigs greenish-brown, glabrous; leaves dark green, leathery, stiff, long-peduncled, with raised reticulate nerves below and revolute margin; leaves extremely variable in form and pubescence, oblong-obovate or rounded, varying in size from about 5 mm in diameter to 60 mm (var. gigantifolia Ball), and in being pubescent on both sides, with long, silky, white hairs (f. villosa Kitamura, rare), or glabrous on both sides (var. semicalva Fern.); scales dark red; capsules pubescent, with short style and purplish stigmas; filaments pubescent. | ||
| Ecology | Common on both dry and moist areas of the tundra, and in mountains to over 2,000 meters. Described from Lapland and Switzerland. |
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.