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Salix serissima ~ autumn willow

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Characteristics:
  • OBL
  • Michigan C Value: 8
  • medium-sized shrub, 2-4 m
  • flowers May-June, fruits late summer to early fall
  • leaves dark green and glossy above, whitened beneath and with fine reticulate venation pattern
  • leaf margins finely glandular-serrulate
  • branchlets shiny
  • this species may be confused with S.lucida (may hybridize); however, S. lucida leaves are non- glaucous beneath and have prominent stipules (1-6 mm wide) with conspicuous glands on the margins.
  • usually in calcareous places
  • native
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