| Salix lasiandra Benth. | |||
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| Family | Salicaceae — APG family: Salicaceae | ||
| Description | Tall shrub or small tree with grayish-brown bark, up to 6 meters tall, with red- dish-brown, shiny twigs; leaves thick, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, long-acumi- nate, finely and regularly crenate-serrate, dark green above, paler beneath, glabrous or glabrate; petioles with a pair of glands at base; catkins appearing with leaves, on leafy peduncles; bracts light-colored, ovate-lanceolate, small; capsules light brown, glabrous, with style about 0.5 mm long; stamens about 5, pubescent. | ||
| Ecology | Sandbars along streams. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Described from the Sacramento River. Most specimens show densely pubescent young branches and belong to var. lan- cifdlia (Anderss.) Bebb (S. lancifolia Anderss.), described from Vancouver Island, but some belong to the typical plant (Yukon Flats, Nevada, Dawson). |
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.