WILLOW FAMILY 
Leaves.—Lanceolate, frequently falcate, wedge-shaped or rounded 
often unequal at base, finely serrate, narrowed into long slender 
points at the apex. When full grown they are light green and shin- 
ing above, pale and glaucous beneath. The midrib is stout, yellow 
or orange ; the petioles are slender, one-half to three-quarters of an 
inch long; the stipules reniform, serrate, frequently half an inch 
broad and usually caducous. 
Flowers.—The catkins are two to three inches long, the scales are 
yellow, very hairy, the stamens from five to nine. 
Fruit.—Capsule, globose-conical, pale reddish yellow, and about 
a quarter of an inch long. 
SANDBAR WILLOW—LONG LEAF WILLOW 
Salix fluviatilis, 
This willow is usually about twenty feet in height, with a trunk 
only a few inches in diameter, and short erect branches, spreading 
by stoloniferous roots into broad thickets. Rarely it 
becomes a tree sixty feet high ; frequently a shrub 
five or six feet high. 
Bark.—Smooth, dark brown, slightly tinged with 
red and scaly. Branchlets are slender, smooth, light 
or dark orange color or purplish red. 
Leaves.—Come out of the bud involute, are linear- 
lanceolate, often falcate, gradually narrowed at both 
ends, finely dentate-serrate, acute or acuminate. 
When they first appear they are exceedingly silky, 
when mature they are thin, smooth, yellow green 
above, paler green below. They vary from two to 
six inches long, one-eighth to one-half an inch wide. 
Midribs raised and prominent; petioles grooved ; 
stipules leafy, deciduous. 
flowers.—Aments are very silky, on the staminate 
plant they are about an inch long, terminal and axil- 
lary, the terminal flowers opening first. The pistil- 
late aments are two to three inches long and terminal 
on leafy branches. Stamens are two with free fila- 
ments, ovary is very silky and crowned with deeply 
lobed stigmas. 
fruit.—Capsule, light brown, one-fourth an inch 
long. 
Longleaf Willow, 
Salix fluviatilis, 
Leaves 2’ to 6/ 
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: The range of Sandbar Willow covers the 
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broad. continent from the arctic circle to northern 
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