| Salix lanata subsp. richardsonii (Hook.) A. Skvortz. | |||
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| Family | Salicaceae — APG family: Salicaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Salix richardsonii Hook. | ||
| Description | Shrub 1-2 meters tall; young twigs densely pubescent; leaves glabrous, glandular, serrate in lower part, small in arctic specimens, obovate-lanceolate to ovate and nearly as broad as long, acute, yellowish-green beneath; stipules persistent, long and narrow, glandular along entire margin; catkins sessile, thick, stiff, appearing before leaves; capsules glabrous, with long styles; stamens 2; filaments glabrous. | ||
| Ecology | Wet places, heaths, riverbanks, both on tundra and in mountains, to at least 1,700 meters in the southern Yukon. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Dotted line on circumpolar map indicates range of subsp. lanata, broken line that of subsp. calcicola (Fern. & Wieg.) Hult. (S. calcicola Fern. & Wieg.). (See color section.) |
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.