| Salix arbusculoides Anderss. | |||
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| Family | Salicaceae — APG family: Salicaceae | ||
| Description | Shrub or tree, up to 3-4 meters tall; twigs reddish, shiny, glabrous; leaves ellip- tical or elliptic-lanceolate, acute, usually finely and regularly serrate in the entire margin, minutely sericeous beneath, with short, white, appressed hairs; catkins ap- pearing with leaves, with 2-3 small leaves on the short peduncle; capsules pubes- cent; bracts blacklsh pubescent; styles about 0 8 mm long; stamens 2; filaments glabrous | ||
| Ecology | Along streams, in woods, in the Yukon to at least 1,200 meters. Described from Prince Albert Sound, Rae River, Labrador. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Plants with leaves nearly glabrous below (var. glabra Anderss.) and with less ser- rulated leaf margin probably represent hybrids with S. pulchra (no. 48, above). (See color section.) |
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.