WILLOWS 



B141 

 (2 leaves) 



Sa'lix spp. 



S. caudaia 



TAIL-LEAF WILLOW (S. 



Leaves appearing with flowers, 2 to 5 in. long, 

 lance-shaped, long-tailed (caudate) at tips, 

 glandular-saw-toothed around margins 



Male (staminate) flowers minute, numerous, 

 with usually 5 stamens protruding from soon 

 hairless, yellowish bracts, in an erect cluster 

 (catkin, or amen t) from a single bud scale 



Female (pistillate) flowers small, with short- 

 stalked, seed-producing organs (ovaries) 2- 

 parted at the tip, protruding from small, soon- 

 falling, hairless bracts, in catkins from single 

 bud scales 



Seed pod (capsule) light brown, splitting 

 down from top 



Seeds minute, numerous, with long, soft, 

 white hairs from around base 



BCOULER WILLOW (S. 



Leaves appearing with flowers, up to 2 in. 

 long and 1 in. wide, from narrowly elliptic and 

 pointed at both ends to broadly reverse-lance- 

 shaped and abruptly short-tapering-pojnted, 

 entire or somewhat wavy on edges 



BEBB WILLOW (S. lebbiana) 



Leaves appearing after flowers, up to about 

 5 in. long, variable in shape (mostly reverse- 

 egg-shaped), thick, entire to faintly toothed on 

 edges, shiny-green above, silvery- to somewhat 

 rusty-hairy or hairless beneath. 



Female flowers hairy 



Male flowers with dark, silky-hairy bracts 

 and 2 stamens 



NABROWLEAF WILLOW (S. 



Leaves appearing with flowers, 2 to 5 in. 

 long, less than # in. wide, linear 



