Common Name: WILLOW FAMILY Habit: Shrub, tree; dioecious (monoecious). Stem: trunk < 40 m; wood soft; bark smooth, bitter; buds scaly. Leaf: simple, alternate, deciduous; stipules generally present, deciduous or not, often large. Inflorescence: catkin [or various, or flowers 1]; each flower subtended by 1 bract. Flower: perianth modified into non-nectariferous, cup- or saucer-shaped structure or reduced to adaxial nectary (rarely also with abaxial nectary, then free or fused into shallow cup). Staminate Flower: stamens 2--many. Pistillate Flower: pistil 1, ovary superior to 1/2-inferior, chambers generally 2--4, placentas parietal, stigma lobes 2--4. Fruit: berry, drupe, or 2--4-valved capsule. Seed: often with basal tuft of hairs. Genera In Family: 58 genera, 1210 species: widespread in tropics, northern temperate, arctic. Note: Now including many genera (e.g., Flacourtia, Idesia, Xylosma) formerly in Flacourtiaceae, at least in part because of presence on leaf margins in both families of salicoid teeth (vein extending to tooth tip). In California (and generally outside California), Populus pollinated by wind, Salix by insects, wind. Hybrids common; identification often difficult. eFlora Treatment Author: John O. Sawyer, Jr., except as noted Scientific Editor: Thomas J. Rosatti.
Common Name: WILLOW Habit: Shrub, tree; dioecious; bud scale 1, not sticky, margins generally fused (or free, overlapping). Stem: twigs generally flexible, generally not glaucous. Leaf: generally alternate; stipules generally vestigial on first leaves, leaf-like on later; mature blade linear to broadly obovate, entire to toothed, generally +- hairy; petiole glands generally 0. Inflorescence: catkin, blooming before, with, or after leaves, sessile or terminating +- short leafy or bracted shoot ("on leafy shoot" or "on bracted shoot," "catkin length" including leafless or bractless part of subtending shoot); 1 flower bract subtending each flower, deciduous or persistent, brown, black, or 2-colored (paler proximally, darker distally; darker generally +- brown). Flower: perianth reduced to adaxial nectary (rarely also with abaxial nectary, then free or fused into shallow cup). Staminate Flower: stamens (1)2(10); nectary generally 1. Pistillate Flower: ovary stalked or sessile, style generally 1, stigmas 2, each 2-lobed, deciduous or persistent; nectary generally 1, generally rod-like. Fruit: valves 2. Etymology: (Latin: ancient name) Note: Difficult, highly variable, many hybrids. Not all specimens key easily; sprouts, other extreme forms not included in keys, may require field comparisons. Studies of chromosome numbers, hybridization needed. Inclusion of Salix sessilifolia Nutt. in TJM (1993) based on misidentification of plants belonging to Salix melanopsis. Fruit length as given throughout excludes the stalk (stipe). Hair lengths: minute, < +- 0.5 mm; short, +- 0.5 mm; long, > +- 0.5 mm. Salix commutata Bebb, treated as misapplied to Salix eastwoodiae in TJM (1993), may occur in northern California mountains; Salix bonplandiana expected in s-most California. For alternate treatments, see Dorn (e.g., 2000 Brittonia 52:1--19). eFlora Treatment Author: George W. Argus Reference: Argus 1997 Madroño 44:115--136 Unabridged Reference: Dorn, R. D. 1995. A taxonomic study of Salix section Cordatae subsection Luteae (Salicaceae). Brittonia 47: 160--174. Dorn, R. D. 1998. A taxonomic study of Salix section Longifoliae (Salicaceae) Brittonia 50: 193--210. Dorn, R. D. 2000. A taxonomic study of Salix sections Mexicanae and Viminella subsection Sitchenses (Salicaceae) in North America. Brittonia 52: 1--19.
Salix lasiolepis Benth.
NATIVE Habit: Shrub, small tree, < 10 m. Stem: twigs +- yellow, yellow-green, or yellow- or red-brown, glabrous, densely short-soft-spreading-hairy, or tomentose, generally brittle at base. Leaf: later stipules generally leaf-like; petiole 3--16 mm, tomentose to velvety; young leaves white- or white-and-rusty-hairy; mature blade 35--125 mm, strap-shaped to elliptic or obovate, acute to convex (base wedge-shaped to convex), entire to irregularly serrate, +- to strongly rolled under, abaxially generally +- dense-tomentose or -woolly-tomentose or hairs sparsely short-soft-spreading or short- or long-silky, white or white and rusty, wavy, to +- 0. Inflorescence: blooming before leaves, pistillate 18--72 mm, on leafy shoots 0--6 mm; flower bract dark brown, with generally wavy hairs, tip broadly rounded. Staminate Flower: stamens 2. Pistillate Flower: ovary glabrous, stalk 0.5--2.4 mm, style 0.1--0.6 mm. Chromosomes: 2n=76. Ecology: Abundant. Shores, marshes, meadows, springs, bluffs; Elevation: < 2800 m. Bioregional Distribution: CA; Distribution Outside California: to Washington, Idaho, Texas, Mexico. Flowering Time: Jan--Jun Note: Highly variable; several weak varieties described. NCo populations suggest intergradation with Salix hookeriana. Synonyms: Salix lasiolepis var. bigelovii (Torr.) Bebb; Salix lasiolepis var. bracelinae C.R. Ball; Salix lasiolepis var. lasiolepis; Salix lasiolepis var. sandbergii (Rydb.) C.R. Ball; Salix lutea Nutt. var. nivaria Jeps. Jepson eFlora Author: George W. Argus Reference: Argus 1997 Madroño 44:115--136 Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Salix lasiandra var. lasiandra Next taxon: Salix lemmonii
Citation for this treatment: George W. Argus 2012, Salix lasiolepis, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=42855, accessed on October 11, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on October 11, 2024.
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