Salix planifolia Pursh
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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 - Erect shrub 1–3 m; twigs stoutish, divaricate, chestnut to red-purple or brown, puberulent at first, soon glabrous and shining; stipules small or more often none; petioles 4–10 mm; lvs rather crowded, narrowly elliptic or elliptic-oblanceolate or narrowly obovate, 3–6(–8) × 1–2.5(–3.5) cm, acute at both ends or the largest obtuse at base, entire or sometimes ± crenate-serrulate, glabrous and glossy above, sparsely sericeous to glabrous and glaucescent beneath, the primary lateral veins numerous, closely spaced; catkins precocious (reputedly sometimes coetaneous–not provided for in the key), sessile, 2.5–5 cm; scales 2–3 mm, black, long-villous; stamens 2; frs lanceolate, 4–7 mm, finely sericeous, subsessile, the pedicels only 0.1–0.5 mm; style 1–1.5 mm; 2n=76. Wet meadows, lake-shores, streambanks, and rocky places; Lab. to Yukon, s. to the mts. of Me., N.H., and Vt., and to n. Minn. and the w. cordillera. (S. phylicifolia ssp. planifolia)