''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
A shrub (often also called a bush) is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant. Unlike herbaceous plants, shrubs have persistent woody stems above the ground. Shrubs can be either deciduous or evergreen. They are distinguished from trees ...
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
A catkin or ament is a slim, cylindrical flower cluster (a spike), with inconspicuous or no petals, usually wind-pollinated (anemophilous) but sometimes insect-pollinated (as in ''Salix''). They contain many, usually unisexual flowers, arranged cl ...
of flowers up to 5 or 6 centimeters long.
References
External links
Jepson Manual TreatmentWashington Burke MuseumPhoto gallery
melanopsis
''Melanopsis'' is a genus of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Melanopsidae.Rosenberg, G. (2014). Melanopsis Férussac, 1807. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http:/ ...
Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
Flora of California
Flora of the Western United States
Flora of Canada
Flora of Nevada
Flora of Oregon
Flora of Idaho
Flora of Colorado
Flora of Wyoming
Flora of Montana
Flora of British Columbia
Flora of Alberta
Flora without expected TNC conservation status
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