- Source: Salix melanopsis
Salix melanopsis is a plant species known by the common name dusky willow. It is native to western North America from British Columbia and Alberta to California and Colorado, where it grows in many types of moist and wet habitat, such as riverbanks and subalpine mountain meadows, on rocky and silty substrates.
Description
Salix melanopsis is a shrub up to 4 meters tall, sometimes sprouting abundantly from its stem to form colonial thickets of clones. The pointed, oval, lance-shaped, or linear leaves may grow over 13 centimeters long and have smooth or spine-toothed edges. The inflorescence is a catkin of flowers up to 5 or 6 centimeters long.
References
External links
Jepson Manual Treatment
Washington Burke Museum
Photo gallery
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Salix melanopsis
- List of Salix species
- Euura exiguae
- List of Salicales of Montana
- List of flora of Washington
- List of Canadian plants by family S
- List of least concern plants
- List of plants of the Sierra Nevada (U.S.)
- List of flora of Utah
- Parasyrphus nigritarsis
