| Salix stolonifera Cov. | |||
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| Family | Salicaceae — APG family: Salicaceae | ||
| Description | Dwarf shrub, with thick branches; leaves obovate or elliptical, blunt or somewhat acute, entire in the margin, slightly white-haired, pale below; catkins short and broad, bracts obovate or rounded, brown, white-haired; capsules glabrous, with style about 2 mm long. | ||
| Ecology | Alpine tundra. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Similar to S. ovalifolia (no. 16, above), but differs in having long styles and thick branches and in having an alpine habitat; also similar to S. fuscescens (no. 15, above), but differs in having long slender styles and entire leaf margins. |
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.