Salix candida Flüggé

• 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 candida Flüggé

• Description

  Species Description - Freely branched low shrub to 1(–1.5) m; branches divaricate, brownish, glabrous, full of lf-scars; twigs densely white-tomentose; stipules lanceolate, glandular; lvs linear- oblong, oblong, or narrowly to rarely broadly oblanceolate, 4–8(–12) × 0.7–1.5(–2.5) cm, mostly acute at both ends, revolute, entire to glandular-crenate, dull and thinly tomentose with sunken veins above, densely white-tomentose beneath; catkins with the lvs, 1–5 cm, on leafy-bracted peduncles 0.5–2 cm; scales 1.5–2.5 mm, brown, persistent, woolly-villous; stamens 2; frs lanceolate, 5–8 mm, subsessile, white-tomentose; style 1–1.5 mm; 2n=38. Calcareous wetlands in glaciated areas; Lab. to Alas., s. to N.J., Pa., O., Ind., Ill., Io., and Colo. An extreme form with most of the tomentum of the lvs soon deciduous, the lvs glaucous beneath, is f. denudata (Andersson) Rouleau. A hybrid with no. 17 is S. ×rubella Bebb; one with no. 28 [Salix petiolaris Sm.] is S. ×clarkei Bebb.

• Common Names

  sage-leaved willow