| Family | SALICACEAE |
| Genus species | Salix arctophila Cockerell ex A.Heller |
| Bibliography | Cat. N. Amer. Pl., ed. 3: 89 (1910) |
| Native Range | Subarctic America to w. & e. Canada and ne. USA |
| Primary Biome | Subalpine or Subarctic |
| Habitat | tundra |
| Altitude | 40-600m |
| Description | branchlets glabrous, leaves petiolate, elliptic to oblanceolate, cuneate, subentire, acute, glaucous, glabrous, dense, subspherical, bracts brownish black |
| Size | 3-15cm |
| Color | |
| Bloom | late spring, 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 in fall |
| Synonyms | Salix arctophila var. leiocarpa (Andersson) C.K.Schneid. Salix arctophila f. leiocarpa (Andersson) Fernald Salix groenlandica (Andersson) Lundstr. Salix groenlandica f. leiocarpa Andersson |
| Territory | 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ASK Alaska, GNL Greenland, NUN Nunavut, NWT Northwest Territories, YUK Yukon) 71 Western Canada (MAN Manitoba, SAS Saskatchewan) 72 Eastern Canada (LAB Labrador, NFL Newfoundland, ONT Ontario, QUE Québec) 75 Northeastern U.S.A. (MAI Maine) |