Salix humilis Marshall
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Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Family
Salicaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Species Description - Colonial shrub 1–3 m; twigs flexible, yellowish to brown, velutinous-tomentose, or eventually glabrate; stipules lanceolate, often deciduous; lvs oblanceolate to narrowly obovate, 3–10(–15) × 1–2(–3) cm, acute or abruptly short-acuminate, somewhat revolute-margined, entire or sparingly undulate-crenate, dark green (and often puberulent) above, glaucous, somewhat rugose, and ± gray-tomentose beneath (sometimes also with some reddish hairs), becoming glabrate; petioles 3–7 mm; catkins precocious, sessile or subsessile, often recurved, the staminate 1–2 cm, the pistillate 1.5–4 cm at maturity; scales 1.5–2 mm, blackish, long-villous; stamens 2; frs narrowly lanceolate-rostrate, 6–10 mm, gray-hairy; pedicels 1–2 mm; style 0.2–0.4 mm; 2n=38, 76. Scattered but common in open woods, dry barrens, and mesic or wet prairies; Nf. and s. Que. to N.D., s. to Fla. and Tex.
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Common Names
upland-willow