| Salix phylicifolia subsp. planifolia (Pursh) Hiitonen | |||
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| Family | Salicaceae — APG family: Salicaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Salix planifolia Pursh. | ||
| Description | Shrub up to 3 meters tall, with glabrous, purplish twigs; leaves elliptical-lanceo- late to oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute, glabrous, green above, glaucous beneath, with entire or irregularly toothed margin; catkins sessile, or with a few small leaves; bracts blackish, hairy; capsules silky-pubescent; stamens 2; filaments glabrous. | ||
| Ecology | Stream banks, wet forests. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | S. phylicifolia described from northern Sweden, subsp. planifolia from Labrador. Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of subsp phylicifolia, Introgression with S. pulchra occurs in the upper Yukon valley. |
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.