| Salix ovalifolia Trautv. | |||
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| Family | Salicaceae — APG family: Salicaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Salix flagellaris Hult. | ||
| Description | Dwarf shrub, with slender, creeping or subterranean branches; stipules lacking; leaves obovate to elliptical, blunt or somewhat acute, pale beneath, entire in the margin, slightly white-haired in lower margin; catkins short and thick; bracts ob- ovate or rounded, brown, with long, white hairs; capsules glabrous, often glaucous, with broad, round base, abruptly contracted to narrow, blunt apex; style about 0.5 mm long, slender. | ||
| Ecology | Salt marshes, shores. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Similar to S. cyclophylla, but differs in the form of the leaves and the capsule; also similar to S. fuscescens, from which it differs in having slender branches and entire-margined leaves, and in having a coastal habitat. Hybridizes with these species, with S. rotundifolia, and with S. arctica (S. glacialis Anderss.). Total range very uncertain. |
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.