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Leaves 4 (or 5) to 15 times as long as wide (except peach- 

 leaf willow which is sometimes only 3 times as long as wide) ; 

 catkins persistent; flower scales yellow, soon falling; tall 

 shrubs or trees; along streams, e. Oreg., e. Wash. 

 14. Leaves narrowly to broadly linear, tapering at both ends, 

 stalkless or nearly so; margins entire or with tiny, wide- 

 spaced, often glandular teeth; stipules scalelike, soon 

 withering; catkins 1-3 together, at ends of new leafy 

 twigs, appearing with or after leaves; stamens 2. 



gravelbar or sandbar willows. 

 Twigs spreading, dark brown to red or black, often 

 shiny, nearly hairless; leaves dark green on upper side, 

 paler green or slightly whitened (glaucescent) on under 

 side, nearly hairless,' to 3 l / 2 inches long (young twigs, 

 stipules, leaf blades, leafstalks more or less densely 

 gray-hairy in var. bolanderiana) ; seed pods hairless; 

 tall shrubs (rarely small trees), in clumps, usually on 

 gravel bars, dusky willow (Salix melanopsis) . 



Twigs ascending, yellow to brown, hairy; seed pods 

 hairy (at least when young) ; usually tall shrubs, often 



thicket -forming sandbar willows. 



Leaves finely (sometimes sparsely) short-gray-hairy 

 (young twigs and leaves often densely short -whit e- 

 hairv at first and then mistaken for silverleaf willow) , 

 2-5 "inches long; margins often with tiny, dotlike, 

 glandular teeth; catkins to 2% inches long; seed pods 

 soon becoming hairless or nearly so. 



coyote willow (Salix exigua). 

 Leaves and seed pods silvery-white, usually densely 

 long-soft-hairy, leaves to 3K inches long, with a 

 short, awnlike (aristate) tip; margins entire or 

 nearly so; catkins to less than 2 inches long. 



silverleaf willow (Salix argophylla). 



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Coyote willow 



471114 O-60-3 



Dusky willow 



Silverleaf willow 



