| Salix mackenzieana Barratt | |||
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| Family | Salicaceae — APG family: Salicaceae | ||
| Description | Shrub up to 3 meters tall; young twigs pubescent, glabrescent in age; stipules reniform to semilunar; leaves glabrous, lanceolate or obovate-lanceolate, acuminate, usually subcordate at base, finely glandular-serrate, green above, glaucous beneath; catkins on leafy peduncles, appearing with leaves; bracts dark brown; capsules glabrous, on pedicels 3-4 mm long; styles about 0.5 mm long. | ||
| Ecology | Sand bars, along streams. Described from Great Slave Lake and the Mackenzie River. |
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.