Sitka Willow
Salix sitchensis var. sitchensis
Synonyms: Salix coulteri, Salix cuneata, Salix sitchensis var. congesta, Salix sitchensis var. denudata, Salix sitchensis var. parviflora, Salix sitchensis var. ralphiana
Female catkins and young leaves of sitka willow as seen along the Eagle Creek Trail, Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area.........April 13, 2012.
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Female catkins and young leaves of sitka willow as seen along the Eagle Creek Trail, Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area.......April 13, 2012. Note the hairy ovaries, dark-tipped subtending bracts, and the hairy ventral leaf surface contrasting with the glabrous, green upper leaf surface.
A close-up of the female catkins and young leaves of sitka willow as found along the Springwater Trail east of Main City Park, Gresham, Oregon........April 17, 2012.
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Close-ups of the staminate catkins and young leaves (upper left) hairy pistils with their subtending floral bracts (uper right) and staminate flowers with subtending floral bracts (lower photo) of sitka willow as found along the Springwater Trail east of Main City Park, Gresham, Oregon............April 17, 2012.
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Examples of Sitka willow as seen along the North Loop Road at the Steens Mountain, southeastern Oregon.........June 2, 2012. The site is a large moist meadow on the east side of the road (private land?) between Fish Lake and Jackman Park. Note the black bracts with rounded tips subtending both male and female flowers, the hair-covered pistils and the male flowers with single stamen with glabrous filament. A hairy filament would mean var. angustifolia which is found above 7000' on the mountain.
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Images from a female Sitka willow as seen along the Umatilla Rim Trail about one-quarter mile north of the junction with the Lake Creek Trail, Umatilla National Forest........June 30, 2012.
Paul Slichter