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Western Wetland Flora

Field Office Guide to Plant Species

Lemon's Willow
Salix lemmonii Bebb

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Family: Willow (Salicaceae)
Flowering: May-June
Field Marks: This shrubby willow has toothed or toothless leaves that are not more than four times longer than wide and are usually smooth at maturity.
Habitat: Wet areas in the mountains.
Habit: Shrub up to 15 feet tall.
Stems: Slender, smooth or sparsely hairy, sometimes glaucous, yellow when young, becoming brownish black and shiny with age.
Leaves: Alternate, simple, lanceolate to oblanceolate, up to 4 inches long, up to 1 inch wide, pointed at the tip, tapering to the base, with or without teeth, silky-hairy when young, becoming smooth at maturity; stipules present.
Flowers: Male and female flowers borne separately in separate spikes, the male spike up to 1 1/2 inches long, the female up to 2 1/2 inches long, both types of spikes appearing as the leaves are unfolding.
Sepals: 0.
Petals: 0.
Stamens: 2, the filaments hairy at the base.
Pistils: Ovary superior, hairy.
Fruits: Capsules lanceoloid, silky-hairy, up to 1/3 inch long, on stalks up to 1/10 inch long.
Notes: Deer and elk may browse the young shoots of this plant.

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