| Family | SALICACEAE |
| Genus species | Salix pulchra Cham. |
| Bibliography | Linnaea 6: 543 (1831) |
| Native Range | Subarctic to w. Canada |
| Primary Biome | Temperate |
| Habitat | grassland and thickets |
| 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 | shrub |
| Cultivation | mesic, slightly humous, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, rich, drained soil, semi-shade |
| Propagation | seed when ripe or as soon as possible cuttings in early summer and fall |
| Synonyms | Salix anadyrensis Flod. Salix arbusculoides f. glabra Andersson Salix barclayi var. hebecarpa Andersson Salix humillima var. glabra (Andersson) Andersson Salix divaricata ssp. pulchra (Cham.) Vorosch. Salix phylicifolia ssp. pulchra (Cham.) Hultén Salix phylicifolia var. subglauca (Andersson) B.Boivin Salix planifolia ssp. pulchra (Cham.) Argus Salix planifolia var. yukonnensis (C.K.Schneid.) Argus Salix pulchra ssp. anadyrensis (Flod.) A.K.Skvortzov Salix pulchra var. betulicortex Kozhevn. Salix pulchra var. looffiae C.R.Ball Salix pulchra var. palmeri C.R.Ball Salix pulchra var. yukonnensis C.K.Schneid. |
| Territory | 0 Circumpolar 1 Europe 14 Eastern Europe (RUN North European Russia) 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (KAM Kamchatka, MAG Magadan) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ALU Aleutian Is., ASK Alaska, NUN Nunavut, NWT Northwest Territories, YUK Yukon) 71 Western Canada (BRC British Columbia) |