| Salix arctolitoralis Hult. | |||
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| Family | Salicaceae — APG family: Salicaceae | ||
| Description | Prostrate shrub, with long, trailing, light-brown branches; leaves yellowish-green above, paler below, ovate to obovate-lanceolate, glabrous, entire in the margin; catkins on leafy peduncles; bracts small, light-colored to purplish, ciliated, shorter than, or as long as, the pedicels; capsules glabrous, greenish to purplish, with style about 0.5 mm long. | ||
| Ecology | Chiefly along the shore. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Similar to S. arctophila (no. 13, above), but yellowish-green; capsules always glabrous, style shorter. |
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.