SALICACEAE 
Almondleaf Willow 
Salix amygdaloides Anders. 
HABIT.—A tree 30-40 feet high, with a straight, columnar 
trunk 1-2 feet in diameter; straight, ascending branches form a 
rather narrow, rounded crown. 
LEAVES.—Alternate, simple, 2-6 inches long, 34-134 inches 
broad; lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, long-pointed; finely serrate; 
thin and firm; light green and shining above, pale and glaucous 
beneath’; petioles slender, 14-34 inch long. 
FLOWERS.—April, with the leaves; dioecious; borne in 
crowded, slender, pubescent catkins 2-3 inches long; calyx o; 
corolla 0; scales yellow, villous both sides; stamens 5-9; ovary 
oblong-conical, with stigmas nearly sessile. 
FRUIT.—May; t-celled, globose-conical capsule, % inch 
long, containing many minute seeds which are furnished with 
long, silky, white hairs. 
WINTER-BUDS.—Terminal bud absent; lateral buds 
broadly ovoid, gibbous, lustrous, dark brown, % inch long. 
BARK—Twigs glabrous, lustrous, dark orange or red- 
brown becoming darker orange-brown; thick and brown on old 
trunks, irregularly fissured into flat, connected ridges. 
WOOD.—Light, soft, weak, close-grained, light brown, with 
thick, whitish sapwood. 
DISTRIBUTION.—Common throughout the state. 
HABITAT.—Banks of streams. 
NOTES.—Hybridizes freely with other willows, making its 
identification difficult. . 
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