Salix uva-ursi Pursh

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Salicaceae

• Scientific Name

  Salix uva-ursi Pursh

• Description

  Species Description - Prostrate, matted alpine shrub with stoutish, leafy, brown twigs; buds ovate, 1–2 mm, brown, glabrous, stipules mostly none; petioles 2–4 mm; lvs narrowly to broadly elliptic, or obovate, 5–20(–25) × 2–7(–10) mm, ± glandular-crenate, acute at base, green, shining, and reticulate above, glaucous and strongly reticulate beneath, glabrous or sometimes silky-villous when young, sometimes persistent and marcescent; catkins with or shortly after the lvs, 1–4 cm, on leafy peduncles 0.5–2 cm, scales brown with blackish tip, 1–1.5 mm, villous; stamen 1 (by cohesion) or rarely 2; staminate fls biglandular; frs more numerous than in no. 12 [Salix herbacea L.], conic, 3–4 mm, subsessile, glabrous; style 0.7–1.5 mm; 2n=38. Exposed, rocky places; Greenl. and Baffin Isl., s. to the mts. of Me., N.H. and N.Y. June–Aug.

• Common Names

  bearberry-willow