| Salix glauca subsp. acutifolia (Hook.) Hult. | |||
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| Family | Salicaceae — APG family: Salicaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Salix glauca var. acutifolia Schneid., Salix villosa var. acutifolia Hook., Salix glauca var. seemannii (Rydb.) Ostenf., Salix seemannii Rydb. | ||
| Description | Shrub up to 1.5 meters tall; young twigs densely grayish-villous, pubescent; leaves grayish-pubescent on both sides, elliptical, obovate to oblanceolate, mostly acute, entire in the margin or somewhat glandular-denticulated at base; catkins cylindrical, densely flowered, with villous rachis; bracts oblong to obovate-oblong, obtuse, darker in apex, gray-pubescent on both sides; capsules subsessile, ovate- oblong to conical, densely grayish-tomentose, with distinct style. | ||
| Ecology | Forms thickets along rivers, both on tundra and in mountains. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of subsp. glauca. |
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.