Canada: MB , NB , ON , QC (NPIN, 2007)
USDA Native Status: L48(N), AK(N), CAN(N) (NPIN, 2007)
Flowers There are 1-3 catkins often located together. Catkins are long and slender and loosely flowered. The scales are yellow, deciduous, and thinly pubescent. On male plants there are two stamens. On female plants stigmas are short and nearly sessile. (Peattie, 1930) Flowers may be yellow, green, or brown. (NPIN, 2007)
Fruit capsules are narrowly conic. (Peattie, 1930) Capsules are brown. (NPIN, 2007)
Leaves are smooth, narrow, and slightly toothed. There is a shallowly scalloped space between the short teeth. (Weatherbee, 2006) There are no stipules. Young leaves are thinly villous (pubescent with long and soft hairs that are not interwoven). Mature leaves are linear to elliptical and glabrous (hairless) beneath. Mature leaves have an acute base, a tip that is barely acute, and margins that are remotely denticulate (toothed). (Peattie, 1930) No other willow has such extremely long leaves in proportion to their breadth - 16 to 18 times as long as broad. There is consequently little shade under a sandbar willow. (NPIN, 2007)
Stems are numerous. Twigs are smooth and reddish brown. (Peattie, 1930)
Plant is 1.5-5.5 m tall. (Peattie, 1930)
Leaves 5-12 cm (2-4 3/4") long x 5-15 mm (1/8-5/8") wide. (Weatherbee, 2006)
Salix interior, es una especie de sauce perteneciente a la familia de las salicáceas. Es nativa de Norteamérica.
Es un arbusto o pequeño árbol, que alcanza un tamaño de 4-9 m de altura. Las ramas de color gris-marrón a marrón rojizo, glabro o velloso, las ramillas de color café amarillo a rojo-marrón, densamente tomentosas o con vellosidades a glabrescentes. Las hojas lineales de 60-160 × 11.4 mm, los márgenes planos, el ápice agudo o subacuminado. La inflorescencia en amentos (con floración a lo largo de la temporada). El fruto en forma de cápsulas (4 -) 5-8 (-10) mm.
Floración temprana en abril hasta principios de julio en las llanuras de inundación de arena limosa, en los márgenes de lagos, lagunas, pantanos y praderas, colinas de praderas de arena seca, áreas perturbadas, a una altitud de 10-1800 metros, en Canadá, Estados Unidos y México (Tamaulipas, Veracruz).[1]
Salix interior fue descrita por Willard Winfield Rowlee y publicado en Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 27(5): 253, en el año 1900.[2][3]
Salix: nombre genérico latino para el sauce, sus ramas y madera.[4]
interior: epíteto latino que significa "interior".[5]
El número cromosomático es de: 2 n = 38.
Salix interior, es una especie de sauce perteneciente a la familia de las salicáceas. Es nativa de Norteamérica.
Vista de la planta En su hábitatSalix interior là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Liễu. Loài này được Rowlee miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1900.[1]
Salix interior là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Liễu. Loài này được Rowlee miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1900.