| Salix myrtillifolia Anders. | |||
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| Family | Salicaceae — APG family: Salicaceae | ||
| Description | Low shrub, usually less than 30 cm tall; young twigs smooth or finely pubescent; leaves yellowish-green on both sides, comparatively small, oblong, oblong-ovate or oblanceolate, glabrous, obtuse or somewhat acute, regularly serrated to base; catkins on leaty peduncles, small, narrower than in S. Barclayi, with short, blunt capsules and shorter styles; bracts dark, short, gray-hairy. | ||
| Ecology | Wet places in river valleys. Intergrades with S. Barclayi. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Var. pseudomyrsinitis (Anderss.) Ball [S. pseudocordata (Anderss.) Rydb.], with acute, long leaves and longer styles, seems to represent hybrid forms. |
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.