| Salix scouleriana Barratt | |||
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| Family | Salicaceae — APG family: Salicaceae | ||
| Description | Shrub or small tree up to 5 meters tall; twigs densely pubescent, in age glabres- cent; leaves crowded at ends of twigs, obovate to oblanceolate, obtuse to acute, entire or somewhat crenate-serrate, dark green and glabrate above, paler and more or less reddish, short-pubescent, below; catkins sessile or on very short, leafy peduncles; bracts obovate, black; capsules tomentose, short-pedicellated; stamens 2, glabrous. | ||
| Ecology | Woods, muskeg, burned areas. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Described from the Columbia River, Fort Van- couver. Our form is generally var. coetanea Ball, with catkins appearing at the same time as the leaves and with short, leafy peduncles. Plants with dense, persistent pubes- cence have been called f. poikila Schneid. |
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.