Salix sericea
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Salix sericea' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Synonyms
- S. petiolaris var. sericea (Marsh.) Anderss.
- S. pennsylvanica Forbes
Other taxa in genus
- Salix aegyptiaca
- Salix alba
- Salix amygdaloides
- Salix arbuscula
- Salix arbutifolia
- Salix arctica
- Salix aurita
- Salix babylonica
- Salix bockii
- Salix 'Boydii'
- Salix caesia
- Salix candida
- Salix caprea
- Salix cinerea
- Salix cordata
- Salix daphnoides
- Salix discolor
- Salix elaeagnos
- Salix exigua
- Salix fargesii
- Salix fragilis
- Salix glabra
- Salix glaucosericea
- Salix gracilistyla
- Salix hastata
- Salix herbacea
- Salix hookeriana
- Salix humboldtiana
- Salix irrorata
- Salix japonica
- Salix jessoensis
- Salix lanata
- Salix lapponum
- Salix lasiandra
- Salix lindleyana
- Salix lucida
- Salix magnifica
- Salix matsudana
- Salix × meyeriana
- Salix × mollissima
- Salix moupinensis
- Salix myrsinifolia
- Salix myrsinites
- Salix myrtilloides
- Salix nakamurana
- Salix nigra
- Salix nigricans
- Salix pentandra
- Salix petiolaris
- Salix phylicifolia
- Salix purpurea
- Salix pyrenaica
- Salix pyrifolia
- Salix repens
- Salix reticulata
- Salix retusa
- Salix rigida
- Salix × rubra
- Salix sachalinensis
- Salix scouleriana
- Salix × sepulcralis
- Salix × sericans
- Salix silesiaca
- Salix starkeana
- Salix × subalpina
- Salix triandra
- Salix uva-ursi
- Salix viminalis
- Salix wilhelmsiana
A shrub to about 15 ft high; branchlets glabrous or silky, brown, brittle at the base; winter-buds abruptly acute at the apex. Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, up to 4 in. long, 1⁄2 to 1 in. wide, slenderly acuminate at the apex, finely serrated throughout, silky on both sides when young, usually permanently so beneath, becoming dark green and glossy above; petiole to 1⁄2 in. long. Catkins appearing in spring before the leaves, about 1 in. long, the females elongating in the fruiting stage; scales dark. Stamens two, the anthers red when young. Ovary short-stalked, ovoid, blunt at the apex, silky; stigmas almost sessile.
Native of eastern N. America; in cultivation 1829 and introduced on several occasions since. Although now uncommon in gardens it is one of the most ornamental of the medium-sized willows. It is grouped with the European S. repens by some authorities, but its taxonomic position is controversial.