| Salix brachycarpa Nutt. | |||
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| Family | Salicaceae — APG family: Salicaceae | ||
| Description | Shrub up to 1 meter tall; twigs grayish-villous; leaves sessile or nearly so, ovate, obovate to oblanceolate, entire in the margin, densely gray-hairy, sometimes glabrescent; catkins on leafy peduncles, nearly spherical to short-oblong, usually not longer than 2 cm; bracts yellowish to straw-colored or brownish, short-pubes- cent; capsules sessile, grayish-woolly, with very short style; stamens 2, filaments hairy toward base. | ||
| Ecology | Wet places, riverbanks. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Similar to S. glauca and S. niphoclada, but differs in having short, thick catkins. |
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.