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Scouler's Willow (Salix scouleriana)Observer
margaret_eaglecapDescription
Minute appressed rusty-coloured hairs on glaucous leaf back; large obovate leaves; velvety branchlets; foliaceous stipules; silky-hairy ovaries with dark white-hairy floral bracts; sessile catkins (hard to find! this one attached at time of collection but fell off in handling); mesic forest habitat.
Collected for UBC.
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False Mountain Willow (Salix pseudomonticola)Observer
margaret_eaglecapDescription
The leaves are just emerging on this plant and the glaucous coating on the underside hasn't developed yet.
However, we can see that the catkins emerged well in advance of the leaves since they are sessile & done flowering . Green-leaved (not glaucous-backed) willows in AB with this general leaf shape would have the catkins on leafy branchlets.
S. pseudomonticola also has juvenile leaves reddish and leaf margins serrulate to crenate. Leafy stipules can also be seen developing here. Floral bracts are dark, leaf base rounded, leaf shape widely elliptic.
A female plant is right beside:
https://inaturalist.ca/observations/162019217
