| Salix barrattiana Hook. | |||
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| Family | Salicaceae — APG family: Salicaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Salix albertana Rowlee. | ||
| Description | Shrub up to 1 meter tall; twigs pubescent; leaves densely silky-pubescent on both sides, elliptical to obovate or oblanceolate (var. angustifolia Anderss.), acute, nearly entire or usually serrate in margin; stipules short and broad, nearly glabrous, glan- dular-margined, sometimes persistent (var. marcéscens Raup); catkins sessile, up- right, appearing before leaves; bracts acute, black, silky-hairy; capsules white-silky; stamens 2; filaments glabrous. | ||
| Ecology | Forms dense thickets on river flats and in alpine meadows, to 1,700 meters in the Yukon, and to about 1,400 meters in McKinley Park. Described from the Rocky Mountains. |
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.