Family | SALICACEAE |
Genus species | Salix pulchra Cham. |
Synonyms | Salix anadyrensis Flod. |
Habitat | tundra |
Altitude | arctic-subarctic |
Description | branchlets purple brown, shiny, leaves narrowly lanceolate, glandular-serrate, glabrous, shortly petiolate, bracts 3-10mm, narrow, acute, longer than petioles, catkins 4-5cm |
Size | 20-35cm |
Color | |
Bloom | spring |
Ca | |
Type | decumbent shrub |
Cultivation | humous, moist, but in winter drier, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | seed when ripe or as soon as possible cuttings in early summer and fall |
Territory |
Circumpolar
Europe Eastern Europe (North European Russia ) Asia-Temperate Siberia (Yakutskiya ) Russian Far East (Kamchatka , Magadan ) Northern America Subarctic America (Aleutian Is. , Alaska , Nunavut , Northwest Territories , Yukon ) Western Canada (British Columbia) |
Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
Comments | SALICACEAE
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