Family | SALICACEAE |
Genus species | Salix sphenophylla A.K.Skvortsov |
Bibliography | Sched. Herb. Fl. Ross. 16: 62 (1966) |
Native Range | Siberia to Russian Far East, Subarctic America |
Primary Biome | Subalpine or Subarctic |
Habitat | tundra |
Description | young branchlets pale yellow, glabrous, leaves oblong-obovate, glabrous, adaxially pale green, abaxially grey, petiolate, distinctly reticulate |
Size | 5-10cm |
Color | |
Bloom | spring |
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 cuneata Turcz. ex Ledeb. Salix pseudotorulosa (A.K.Skvortsov) Czerep. Salix psilostachya Turcz. ex Nasarow Salix sphenophylla ssp. pseudotorulosa A.K.Skvortsov |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (BRY Buryatiya, CTA Chita, IRK Irkutsk, YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (KAM Kamchatka, KHA Khabarovsk, MAG Magadan) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ASK Alaska, NWT Northwest Territories, YUK Yukon) |