Salix atra Rydb.

Authority

Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden.

Family

Salicaceae

Scientific Name

Salix atra Rydb.

Description

Species Description - A low shrub, with ascending dark brown branches which are more or less villous when young; leaves small, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, broadly oblanceolate, acute at both ends, when young covered with long white hairs, which are appressed and parallel to the midrib, dark above, pale beneath, turning blackish in drying; catkins 1.5-3 cm - long, rather dense; bracts oblong, yellowish, more or less villous; capsule 3-5 mm. long, ovoid, densely white-woolly, style manifest.

Discussion

It differs from S. glauca in the smaller leaves, which turn black, the denser catkin, and the shorter and more woolly capsule.

Distribution

Labrador, Hudson Bay.

Newfoundland and Labrador Canada North America|