Salix lucida
Branch with leaves and catkins
The gloss - willow ( Salix lucida ) is a large shrub or small tree of the genus willow ( Salix) with shiny, bare branches and shiny and almost bare leaf blades. The natural range of the species located in North America. It is very rarely used.
Description
The gloss Willow is a 3 to 6 feet tall shrub or small tree with yellow-brown, shiny, bare branches. The leaves have semi heart-shaped, strongly glandular stipules and a 6 to 12 millimeters long occupied with glandular stem. The leaf blade is 8 to 12 inches long, 2-3 cm wide, ovate - lanceolate to lanceolate, conspicuously acuminate, serrated with broadly wedge -shaped to rounded base and glandular margin. Both sides are bright, the upper leaf surface is dark green and glabrous, the underside is lighter in color and hairy weak only to the leaf veins.
As inflorescences 3 to 7.5 inches long, cylindrical catkins are formed. The bracts are pale yellowish and hairy. Male flowers have three to six stamens with golden anthers. The ovary of female flowers is glabrous, the stigma nearly sessile. The gloss - willow flowers with the leaves emerge from May to mid-July.
The chromosome number is 2n = 76
Occurrence and habitat requirements
The natural range is in North America, ranging from Eastern and Western Canada through the eastern and central United States to return to Delaware and Maryland. The gloss willow grows in bog and swamp areas on marshy or peaty ground on sunny light to shady locations at altitudes from 0 to 600 meters. The distribution area is the hardiness zone 3 is associated with mean annual minimum temperatures of -40.0 to -34.5 ° C (-40 to -30 ° F).
System
The gloss - willow ( Salix lucida ) is a species in the genus of the willows ( Salix) in the family of the willow family ( Salicaceae ). She was described in 1803 by Henry Muhlenberg first time scientifically. The genus name Salix comes from Latin and was already used by the Romans for various species of willows. The specific epithet lucida also hails from the Latin, means " shining " and refers to the shining branches and leaf blades.
There are two subspecies:
- Salix lucida subsp. lucida
- Salix lucida subsp. lasiandra ( Benth. ) AEMurray, which was described by George Bentham as a separate species Salix lasiandra before it was assigned by Albert Edward Murray as a subspecies of Salix lucida.
Use
The gloss pasture is very rarely used.