Salix serissima (L.H.Bailey) Fernald
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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 1–4 m, with olive-brown branches, the twigs and bud-scales yellow-brown, glabrous, shining; stipules minute or none; lvs glabrous from the first, reddish when young, firm, lanceolate to lance-elliptic or lance-oblong, 5–10 × 1–2.5(–3.5) cm, finely glandular-serrate, acute to short-acuminate, shining dark green above, subglaucous beneath; petioles glandular above at the tip; catkins with or somewhat after the lvs, the staminate 1.5–3(–4) cm, the pistillate stout, 1.5–3.5(–5) cm at maturity, on lateral leafy peduncles 1–3.5 cm; scales pale yellow, white-pilose nearly or quite throughout, those of the pistillate catkins deciduous; stamens 3–7; fr narrowly conic, 7–10 mm glabrous, on pedicels 1–2 mm; style to 1 mm; 2n=76. Swamps and bogs; Nf. to Alta., s. to n. N.Y., N.J., n. Ind., c. Minn., and Colo. Late May–June, the fr maturing in late summer or fall.
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Common Names
autumn-willow