Salix labradorica Rydb.

  • Authority

    Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden.

  • Family

    Salicaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Salix labradorica Rydb.

  • Description

    Species Description - A low shrub, perhaps not properly included among the cespitose species; older bark dark brown and shining; the young shoots more or less densely villous; leaves broadly ovate, often obtuse orsubcordate at the base, rather firm, dark and glossy above, more or less glaucous beneath, on both surfaces invested with white villous hairs, which are spreading in all directions; catkins densely many-flowered; bracts oblong, brown, villous; capsule 6-8 mm. long, ovoid-conic, densely white-villous; style rather short; stigmas two, slightly two-cleft.

  • Discussion

    It is nearest related to S. glauc the broader leaves and their pubes and the shorter capsules.

    Labrador : Turner's Head, 1892, Rev. A. C. Waghorne, nos.36 and 63; Battle Harbour, 1892, no. 21 ; Seal Harbor, 1892 (G. S. C. 18829) ; Battle River (18838, 16) ; Nacwak, J?. Bell, 1884 (18821).

  • Distribution

    Labrador : Turner's Head, 1892, Rev. A. C. Waghorne, nos.36 and 63; Battle Harbour, 1892, no. 21 ; Seal Harbor, 1892 (G. S. C. 18829) ; Battle River (18838, 16) ; Nacwak.

    Newfoundland and Labrador Canada North America|