| Salix candida Fliigge | |||
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| Family | Salicaceae — APG family: Salicaceae | ||
| Description | Upright shrub, up to 1 meter tall; twigs white-woolly when young, glabrescent in age; leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute, with entire or undulate, inrolled margin, white-tomentose on both sides when young, later sometimes glabrescent and dark green above; catkins appearing before leaves, sessile; bracts pale, brown toward apex; capsules densely white-woolly, with styles 1 mm long; stamens 2, glabrous. | ||
| Ecology | Wet meadows, muskeg. Type locality not given. |
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.