| Salix serissima (Bailey) Fern. | |||
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| Family | Salicaceae — APG family: Salicaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Salix lucida var. serissima Bailey. | ||
| Description | Shrub up to 4 meters tall, with glabrous, shiny twigs; leaves elliptical to oblong- lanceolate, short-acuminate, glabrous, finely and regularly glandular-serrate, dark green above, somewhat glaucous beneath; petioles with glands on both sides near base of blade; pistillate catkins 2-3.5 cm long, on leafy peduncles; bracts yellowish, short-haired; capsule glabrous, conic-subulate, with style 0.5 mm long, the pedicel twice as long as the upper gland. | ||
| Ecology | Marshes and bogs. Described from Minnesota. |
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.