Salix argyrocarpa Andersson

• 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 argyrocarpa Andersson

• Description

  Species Description - Bushy shrub 5-17 dm, often depressed at base; twigs short, leafy, full of lf-scars, reddish-brown, puberulent when young; stipules none, or minute, and caducous; petioles to 6 mm; lvs narrowly elliptic-oblanceolate, 2–5 cm, to 1 cm wide, acute, subrevolute and subentire to closely crenulate, dark green with impressed veins above, glaucescent and ± long-sericeous to glabrate beneath, the primary lateral veins numerous, wide-angled, closely parallel; catkins with the lvs, 1–2.5 cm, on leafy peduncles 0.5–1.2 cm; staminate fls biglandular; scales 1–2 mm, brownish-black, thinly villous; frs lance-ovate, 2–4 mm, densely short-sericeous; pedicels 1–2 mm; style 0.5 mm; 2n=76. Moist ravines and alpine slopes; mts. of n. Vt., n. N.H., and n. Me. to Nf. and Lab. A hybrid with no. 20 [Salix planifolia Pursh] is S. ×grayi C. K. Schneid.

• Common Names

  silvery willow