| Family | SALICACEAE |
| Genus species | Salix brachycarpa Nutt. |
| Bibliography | N. Amer. Sylv. 1: 69 (1817) |
| Native Range | Subarctic America to w. USA and New Mexico |
| Primary Biome | Temperate |
| Habitat | scree |
| Description | branchlets yellowish, leaves oval to obovate, 1-2cm long, acute, shortly petiolate, entire, on both faces grey-green, hirsute, catkins spherical, 15-20mm broad |
| Size | 50-100cm |
| Color | |
| Bloom | spring |
| Ca | + |
| Type | shrub |
| Cultivation | gravelly, humous, moist, sunny site alpine house, moist, humous, gravelly soil, sun |
| Propagation | seed when ripe or as soon as possible cuttings in early summer and fall |
| Synonyms | Salix brachycarpa var. alticola E.H.Kelso Salix brachycarpa var. antimima (C.K.Schneid.) Raup Salix brachycarpa var. glabellicarpa C.K.Schneid. Salix brachycarpa var. sansonii C.R.Ball Salix chlorolepis var. antimima C.K.Schneid. Salix desertorum var. fruticulosa Andersson Salix desertorum var. stricta Andersson Salix stricta (Andersson) Rydb. |
| Territory | 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (NUN Nunavut, NWT Northwest Territories) 71 Western Canada (ABT Alberta, BRC British Columbia, MAN Manitoba, SAS Saskatchewan) 73 Northwestern U.S.A. (COL Colorado, MNT Montana, ORE Oregon, WAS Washington, WYO Wyoming) 76 Southwestern U.S.A. (UTA Utah) 77 South-Central U.S.A. (NWM New Mexico) |