Family | SALICACEAE |
Genus species | Salix glacialis Andersson |
Bibliography | Öfvers. Kongl. Vetensk.-Akad. Förh. 15: 131 (1858) |
Native Range | Aleutian Islands to Alaska |
Primary Biome | Subarctic |
Habitat | tundra |
Description | leaves minute, ovate, 8-15mm, entire, on both faces sparsely pubescent, glabrescent, ciliate, shortly petiolate, catkins 4-9mm long, spherical, on short leafy branchlets |
Size | 5-15cm |
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 in fall |
Synonyms | Salix ovalifolia var. glacialis (Andersson) Argus Salix ovalifolia ssp. glacialis (Andersson) Jurtzev & V.V.Petrovsky |
Territory | 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ALU Aleutian Is., ASK Alaska) |