Family | SALICACEAE |
Genus species | Salix ovalifolia Trautv. |
Bibliography | Nouv. Mém. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 2: 306 (1832) |
Native Range | ne. Siberia to Subarctic America |
Primary Biome | Subarctic |
Habitat | tundra |
Description | leaves obovate or elliptic, obtuse, coriaceous, glabrous, ciliate, entire, finely reticulate, catkins lateral, 1-2cm long, dense, elliptic to ovate |
Size | 10-25cm |
Color | |
Bloom | summer |
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 flagellaris Hultén Salix ovalifolia f. acrotricha Kimura ex Tatew. & Kobayashi Salix ovalifolia var. camdensis C.K.Schneid. Salix ovalifolia var. carbonicola (V.V.Petrovsky) Nedol. Salix ovalifolia var. major Andersson Salix stolonifera ssp. carbonicola V.V.Petrovsky Salix unalaschkensis Cham. Salix uva-ursi Seemen |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (MAG Magadan) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ALU Aleutian Is., ASK Alaska, NWT Northwest Territories, YUK Yukon) |