| Family | SALICACEAE |
| Genus species | Salix glauca L. |
| Synonyms | Salix seemanii Rydb. |
| Salix sericeocinerea Nakai | |
| Salix tomentosa Host | |
| Habitat | tundra |
| Altitude | arctic-alpine |
| Description | leaves oblanceolate, 3-8cm, acute, entire, grey hirsute, in time adaxially dark green, shortly petiolate, catkins cylindrical, to 6cm long, bracts yellow-brown, hirsute |
| Size | 30-100cm |
| Color | |
| Bloom | spring |
| Ca | |
| Type | erect 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 Northern Europe (Finland , Fřroyar , Iceland , Norway , Sweden ) Eastern Europe (East European Russia , North European Russia ) Asia-Temperate Siberia (Altay , Buryatiya , Chita , Irkutsk , Krasnoyarsk , Tuva , West Siberia , Yakutskiya ) Russian Far East (Kamchatka , Khabarovsk , Magadan , Sakhalin ) Middle Asia (Kazakhstan ) China (China North-Central ) Eastern Asia (Korea ) Northern America Subarctic America (Alaska , Greenland , Nunavut , Northwest Territories , Yukon ) Western Canada (Alberta , British Columbia , Manitoba , Saskatchewan ) Eastern Canada (Newfoundland , Nova Scotia , Ontario , Québec ) Northwestern U.S.A. (Colorado , Montana , Oregon , Washington , Wyoming ) South-Central U.S.A. (New Mexico) |
| Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
| Comments | SALICACEAE
glauca acutifolia (Hook.) C.K.Schneid., Bot. Gaz. 66: 327 (1918)
glauca cordifolia (Pursh) Dorn, Phytologia 90(3): 316 (2008)
glauca villosa Andersson, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 4: 68 (1858)
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