Salix sitchensis Sanson | |||
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Family | Salicaceae — APG family: Salicaceae | ||
Common name | sitka willow | ||
Description | Shrub or (rarely) small tree, up to 10 meters tall, with trunk 30 cm in diameter, sometimes prostrate shrub; twigs pubescent when young, more or less glabrescent in age; leaves obovate or oblong-obovate, obtuse or somewhat acute, more or less silky-pubescent, with shiny, short, appressed hairs; catkins long, slender, densely flowered, on short, leafy peduncles; bracts brown, pubescent; capsules silky-pubes- cent, nearly sessile; stamen single, with glabrous filament. | ||
Ecology | Along streams and shores. | ||
Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of the very closely related var. ajanénsis Anderss., in eastern Asia (Ajan), and of the closely related S. Coultéri Anderss., from California to Washington. |
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.