| Salix interior Rowlee | |||
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| Family | Salicaceae — APG family: Salicaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Salix longifolia Muhl. | ||
| Description | Shrub up to 4 meters tall; twigs smooth; leaves sessile or nearly so, narrowly lanceolate to linear, glabrous or sometimes sericeous [f. Wheéleri (Rowlee) Rou- leau (S. interior var. Wheeleri Rowlee) ], entire in the margin when young, later with widely separated teeth; catkins on leafy peduncles; bracts pale yellow, decidu- ous; capsules silky, glabrate in age, on pedicels 1.5 mm long; stigmas sessile. | ||
| Ecology | Sandbars in rivers, along shores. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Described from the upper Mississippi Valley, the Great Lakes, and the eastern slope of the Allegheny Mountains. Most specimens belong to var. pedicellata (Anderss.) Ball (S. longifolia pedicellata Anderss.), with very narrow leaves, usually not over 6 mm wide. |
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.