Family | SALICACEAE |
Genus species | Salix arctica Pall. |
Synonyms | Salix anglorum Cham. |
Salix brownii Bebb | |
Salix ehlei Flod. | |
Habitat | tundra |
Altitude | arctic-alpine |
Description | leaves thick, ovate to obovate, 15-50mm, obtuse, cuneate, petiolate, adaxially dark green, abaxially paler, reticulate, catkins to 5cm long, erect |
Size | 15-20cm |
Color | |
Bloom | spring |
Ca | |
Type | shrub, carpet |
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 |
Territory |
Circumpolar
Europe Northern Europe (Fřroyar , Iceland ) Eastern Europe (East European Russia , North European Russia ) Asia-Temperate Siberia (Altay , Buryatiya , Irkutsk , Krasnoyarsk , Tuva , West Siberia , Yakutskiya ) Russian Far East (Kamchatka , Magadan ) Middle Asia (Kazakhstan ) China (Xinjiang ) Northern America Subarctic America (Aleutian Is. , Alaska , Greenland , Nunavut , Northwest Territories , Yukon ) Western Canada (Alberta , British Columbia ) Eastern Canada (Labrador , Newfoundland , Ontario , Québec ) Northwestern U.S.A. (Washington) |
Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
Comments | SALICACEAE
arctica crassijulis (Trautv.) A.K.Skvortsov, Sched. Herb. Fl. Ross. 16: 61 (1966)
arctica jamu-taridensis A.K.Skvortsov ex V.V.Petrovsky, Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 68(1): 31 (1983)
arctica torulosa (Ledeb.) Hultén, Kungl. Svenska Vetens.-akad. Handl. 13(1): 316 (1971)
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