Salix caroliniana Michx.
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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
Species Description - Shrub or tree to 10 m, or larger westward; buds conic, sharp-tipped, the short (3–7 mm) scale with free, overlapping margins; petioles and twigs yellowish to dark brown, usually white-hairy the first year, the petiole with glandular dots or processes at the summit; stipules well developed and persistent, 7–15 mm, broadly reniform, serrulate; lvs spreading, lance-linear to lanceolate (or the young ones often oblanceolate and obtuse), 7–15 × 0.7–3 cm, mostly 5–10 times as long as wide, long-acuminate, closely serrulate, dark green or yellowish-green above, densely glaucous beneath, often hairy, especially along the midrib, the areoles minute beneath; catkins with the lvs, 3–11 cm, on lax, leafy peduncles 2–5(–7) cm; scales yellowish, villous, deciduous; stamens (4–)6(–8); fr narrowly lance-ovate, 3–6 mm, granular-roughened; pedicels 1.5–5 mm; style 0.1–0.2 mm. Floodplains and other moist or wet low places; Del., Md., and the Potomac and Ohio valleys (to Pittsburgh and s. Ind.), w. to e. Kans. and Okla., s. to Cuba and Guat. (S. ambigua; S. longipes; S. wardii)
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Common Names
Carolina-willow