Résumé ²

Salix discolor

Description ³

• Shape: Multi-stemmed shrub
• Leaf/Branch Arrangement: Alternate
• Flower: elongate fuzzy cluster – catkin, 1-4 inches long, male and female on different plants
• Leaves: 1-3 inches long, 1 3/8 inches wide, 2-4 times longer than wide, pointed tip, irregularly toothed
• Bark: grey
• Fruit/Seed: cluster of elongated green capsules with and inflated base
• Height: 6-30 feet
• Flowering: April - May
• Habitat: swamps, marshes, shores, thickets, seeps, swales, wet meadows, wet ditches

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Don Sutherland, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Don Sutherland
2. Adapted by Jean Francois Noulin from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salix_discolor
3. (c) Minnesota Scientific and Natural Areas, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://www.inaturalist.org/guide_taxa/1163394

More Info

• iNaturalist.ca taxon page
• Atlas of Living Australia
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Flora of North America (beta)
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• Go Botany
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• Maryland Biodiversity Project
• NatureServe Explorer 2.0
• OregonFlora.org
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• USDA PLANTS database
• VASCAN by Canadensys
• World Flora Online

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