| Family | SALICACEAE |
| Genus species | Salix vestita Pursh |
| Bibliography | Fl. Amer. Sept. 2: 610 (1813) |
| Native Range | Siberia to Xinjiang and Mongolia, Canada to. nw. USA |
| Primary Biome | Subalpine or Subarctic |
| Habitat | grassland |
| Altitude | 0-2000m |
| Description | leaves obovate or elliptic, 4-8cm, obtuse, cuneate, crenate, dark green, distinctly reticulate, abaxially densely white hirsute, long petiolate, catkins to 2cm long |
| Size | 20-50cm |
| Color | |
| Bloom | spring |
| Ca | + |
| Type | 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 |
| Synonyms | Salix erecta Ledeb. ex Nasarow Salix fernaldii Blank. Salix leiolepis Fernald Salix obovata Pursh Salix reticulata var. vestita (Pursh) Andersson Salix vestita var. erecta Andersson Salix vestita var. humilior Andersson Salix vestita ssp. leiolepis (Fernald) Argus Salix vestita f. mensalis Fernald Salix vestita var. nana Hook. Salix vestita var. psilophylla Fernald & H.St.John |
| Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, BRY Buryatiya, IRK Irkutsk, KRA Krasnoyarsk, TVA Tuva, YAK Yakutskiya) 36 China (CHX Xinjiang) 37 Mongolia 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (NUN Nunavut) 71 Western Canada (ABT Alberta, BRC British Columbia, MAN Manitoba) 72 Eastern Canada (LAB Labrador, NFL Newfoundland, NSC Nova Scotia, ONT Ontario, QUE Québec) 73 Northwestern U.S.A. (MNT Montana, ORE Oregon, WAS Washington) |