Flora of North America species comparison

stipules (sometimes marcescent), foliaceous, (resinous, 1.5–7.5 mm), apex acute;

petiole shallowly grooved, or convex to flat adaxially, 4–15 mm, villous or puberulent adaxially, (weakly ventricose around floral buds);

largest medial blade narrowly to broadly elliptic, oblanceolate, or obovate, 35–95 × 10–29 mm, 2.2–4.2(–5) times as long as wide, base usually convex, rounded, or cuneate, sometimes cordate, margins flat, entire, apex acute, convex, or acuminate, abaxial surface not glaucous, moderately to very densely long-silky tomentose to glabrescent, hairs wavy, adaxial slightly glossy, sparsely villous or pubescent to glabrescent;

proximal blade margins entire;

juvenile blade color sometimes obscured by hairs, very densely long-silky abaxially, hairs white.

adaxial nectary narrowly oblong to oblong, 0.4–1.8 mm;

filaments distinct;

anthers yellow or purple turning yellow, ellipsoid or shortly cylindrical, 0.4–0.6 mm.

adaxial nectary narrowly oblong to oblong, 0.6–1.3 mm;

stipe 0.2–0.6 mm;

ovary pyriform, (hairs refractive), beak gradually tapering to styles;

ovules 16–21 per ovary;

styles 0.6–1.8 mm;

stigmas 0.28–0.47–0.64 mm.

4.5–6 mm.

flowering before leaves emerge; staminate stout or subglobose, 20–57 × 13–18 mm, flowering branchlet 0–2 mm; pistillate densely flowered, slender to stout, 28–92(–105 in fruit) × 12–19 mm, flowering branchlet 0–5 mm;

floral bract brown or black, 2.8–5.2 mm, apex acute to convex, abaxially hairy, hairs straight.

×smithiana Willdenow: S. caprea × S. viminalis is an introduced European hybrid commonly naturalized in eastern Canada (New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island), where it was introduced for coarse basketry.

pistillate specimens are known and seed-set has not been noted.

is characterized by: shrubs or trees, 2–10 m;

branches yellow-brown, brownish, or gray-brown, pubescent to glabrescent, ± brittle at base, peeled 3–5 year-old branches smooth or striate, striae few, 0–6 mm;

branchlets not glaucous, moderately densely pubescent;

largest medial leaf blades very narrowly elliptic, narrowly elliptic, or narrowly oblong, 2.8–4.9(–6.4) times as long as wide, margins entire or sinuate, adaxial surfaces pubescent;

catkins flowering before leaves emerge;

stipes 0.9–2 mm;

ovaries pyriform to obclavate, moderately to very densely short-silky;

styles 0.5–1.2 mm;

stigmas slenderly cylindrical, lobes 0.6–1.2 mm; and capsules 5–7 mm.