This fine willow belongs to the same group as S. pentandra, our native bay willow, and S. lucida, and is, according to Sargent, often a tree 60 ft high in western N. America, where it is native. It has the same dark green, shining leaves as its allies, the glandular teeth, the conspicuous stipules on strong shoots, the glandular leaf-stalks, yellow midrib, and the five or more stamens; but the leaf is, at first at any rate, pale or glaucous beneath and downy. In flower it is also distinguished by the scale, at the base of which the group of stamens or the ovary is attached, being toothed at the apex; it is entire in the other two. The leaves are 4 to 5 (sometimes 6 to 7) in. long, 1⁄2 to 1 (sometimes 11⁄2 in. wide.
Salix lasiandra Benth.
Modern name
Synonyms
S. speciosa Nutt., not Host; S. lancifolia Anderss.; S. lucida var. macrophylla Anderss.Genus
Other species in the genus
- Salix aegyptiaca L.
- Salix alba L.
- Salix arbuscula L. emend. Sm.
- Salix arbutifolia Pall.
- Salix arctica Pall.
- Salix aurita L.
- Salix babylonica L.
- Salix bockii Seem.
- Salix 'Boydii'
- Salix caesia Vill.
- Salix candida Fluegge ex Willd.
- Salix caprea L.
- Salix cinerea L.
- Salix cordata Michx.
- Salix daphnoides Vill.
- Salix discolor Muhl.
- Salix elaeagnos Scop.
- Salix exigua Nutt.
- Salix fargesii Burkill
- Salix fragilis L.
- Salix glabra Scop.
- Salix glaucosericea Floderus
- Salix gracilistyla Miq.
- Salix hastata L.
- Salix herbacea L.
- Salix hookeriana Barratt
- Salix irrorata Anderss.
- Salix japonica Thunb.
- Salix jessoensis Seem.
- Salix lanata L.
- Salix lapponum L.
- Salix lindleyana Anderss.
- Salix lucida Muhl.
- Salix magnifica Hemsl.
- Salix matsudana Koidz.
- Salix × meyeriana Rostk.
- Salix × mollissima Ehrh.
- Salix moupinensis Franch.
- Salix myrsinifolia Salisb.
- Salix myrsinites L.
- Salix myrtilloides L.
- Salix nakamurana Koidz.
- Salix nigra Marsh.
- Salix nigricans Sm.
- Salix pentandra L.
- Salix petiolaris Sm.
- Salix phylicifolia L.
- Salix purpurea L.
- Salix pyrenaica Gouan
- Salix pyrifolia Anderss.
- Salix repens L.
- Salix reticulata L.
- Salix retusa L.
- Salix rigida Muhl.
- Salix × rubra Huds.
- Salix sachalinensis Fr. Schmidt
- Salix × sepulcralis Simonk. (1889)
- Salix × sericans Tausch ex Kern.
- Salix sericea Marsh.
- Salix silesiaca Willd.
- Salix starkeana Willd.
- Salix × subalpina Forbes
- Salix triandra L.
- Salix uva -ursi Pursh
- Salix viminalis L.
- Salix wilhelmsiana Bieb.