Salix scouleriana Barratt ex Hook.

Shrub or tree 3–18 m, though usually under 10 m. Branchlets brown, pubescent to glabrous. Leaves deciduous, 3–8 × 2–3 cm, elliptic to obovate, immature leaves covered with silky hairs, mature leaves with upper surface glossy and glabrous, lower surface glaucous and densely tomentose, margins entire, glandular (rarely serrate), apex acute to rounded; petiole 0.5–1.5 cm long, reddish brown, velvety; stipules tiny. Inflorescences precocious, borne on leafy axillary branchlets. Staminate catkins 1.5–4 cm long, bracts tawny, stamens two per flower. Pistillate catkins 1.5–5 cm long, flowers sparse. Capsule 0.5–1 cm long, covered in silky hairs. Newsholme 1992. Distribution CANADA: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Yukon; MEXICO: Coahuila, Sonora; USA: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wyoming. Habitat From dry forest and meadows to wet forest and swamps, between 90 and 3400 m asl. USDA Hardiness Zone 3. Conservation status Not evaluated. Illustration Newsholme 1992; NT770, NT771.