Salix brachycarpa – description, flowering period and general distribution in Quebec. young green shrub

Salix brachycarpa – description, flowering period and general distribution in Quebec. big old shrub over the water

Salix brachycarpa – description, flowering period and general distribution in Quebec. young buds on the branches

Salix brachycarpa – description, flowering period and general distribution in Quebec. willow at the beginning of flowering

Scientific name:

Salix brachycarpa

Common name(s):

Shortfruit willow, Barren-ground willow, Small-fruit sand dune willow, Small-fruit willow.

Life form:

Shrub.

Flowering time:

no data.

Flowering period

in Quebec for this plant is: June ↔ July.

NECTAR PRODUCTION:

No data

SOURCE FOR HONEY BEES:

Minor

General distribution:

In northern Canada shortfruit willow is distributed from the Yukon Territory to adjacent British Columbia and east to the Hudson Bay. In the contiguous United States shortfruit willow occurs from the Canadian border southward in the cordilleras to Utah and Colorado.

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This plant is present in at least 17 states/provinces in this country.

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Botanical description:

Shortfruit willow is a much-branched, low-growing, and often prostrate shrub typically between 1 and 3 feet (0.3-0.9 m) tall. Male and female flowers occur on separate plants in 0.7- to 2-inch-long (1.5-5 cm) catkins that persist throughout the summer and often through the following winter. The fruit is a two-valved capsule.

Seasonal development:

Shortfruit willow flowers in June and July and the seed is dispersed in July and August.

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