Salix calcicola | |
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Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Malpighiales |
Family: | Salicaceae |
Genus: | Salix |
Species: | S. calcicola
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Binomial name | |
Salix calcicola Fernald & Wiegand
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Salix calcicola, known as limestone willow or woolly willow, is a species of willow native to the subarctic and Arctic regions of Canada, including Nunavut Islands, continental Nunavut, northern Quebec, Labrador. Arctic islands: Baffin, King William, Southampton, and Coats (Boothia Peninsula). [1] [2]
It is a low growing shrub with usually ovate leaves and catkins that emerge in the early spring before the leaves emerge. [3]
The species has been treated as subspecies of Salix lanata, but it is not proven. [1]