| Salix chamissonis Anderss. | |||
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| Family | Salicaceae — APG family: Salicaceae | ||
| Description | Dwarf shrub; branches prostrate, light-brown, thick, pubescent when young, later glabrous; leaves thin, obovate or elliptical, obtuse or somewhat acute, slightly paler below, regularly glandular-serrate along entire margin; peduncles with large leaves; catkins cylindrical, 3-4 cm long, in fruit longer; bracts brownish-black, acute, gray-haired; capsules conical, green when young, gray-haired, short-pedi- cellated, with undivided style about 1 mm long. | ||
| Ecology | Dry, alpine tundra, snow beds. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Preferred habitats are those of the S. arctica complex, with which hybrids are formed. |
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.