| Salix setchelliana Ball | |||
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| Family | Salicaceae — APG family: Salicaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Salix aliena Flod. | ||
| Description | Prostrate shrub, pruinose, glabrate in age; leaves bluish-green, thick, leathery, obovate to oblanceolate, blunt, serrated with coarse teeth; catkins on leafy pe- duncles; bracts yellowish, ciliate; capsules glabrous, with style 0.2-0.3 mm long; stamens hairy. | ||
| Ecology | Gravel bars, shores, sandy slopes. A very characteristic species, endemic to our area. |
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.