Family | SALICACEAE |
Genus species | Salix chamissonis Andersson |
Bibliography | Prodr. [A.P.de Candolle] 16(2.2): 290 (1868) |
Native Range | Russian Far East to Subarctic America |
Primary Biome | Subarctic |
Habitat | tundra |
Description | branchlets yellow-green, leaves very thin, nearly translucent, obovate, 15-30mm, obtuse, glandular-serrate, catkins cylindrical, 3-4cm long |
Size | 5-10cm |
Color | |
Bloom | spring |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
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 |
Synonyms | Salix chamissonis ssp. integerrima Vorosch. Salix integerrima (Vorosch.) Nedol. Salix kingoi Tamura Salix myrsinites Cham. Salix pulchroides Kimura |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 31 Russian Far East (KAM Kamchatka, MAG Magadan, SAK Sakhalin) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ASK Alaska, NWT Northwest Territories, YUK Yukon) |