Distribution: Southwestern North America: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah
Size: 2 - 3 (m)
Flowering period: III - V
Salix irrorata Andersson - Accepted: Salix irrorata Andersson bei The Plant List (2014), version 1.1; Familie: Salicaceae (APG III)
Flowers
dioecious; male (staminate) and female (pistillate) flowers in catkins
Flower ecology
animal-pollinated (zoophilous)
Life form
shrub
Leaves
oblanceolate, alternate
Foliage persistence
deciduous
Fruits
white capsule fruit
Fruit ecology
wind-dispersed (anemochorous)
Soil conditions
preferentially on fresh to moist soils
Natural occurrence (habitat)
along flowing water, riparian habitats
Vegetation typ and synecology (plant community)
in shrub communities with peachleaf willow (Salix amygdaloides) and yellow willow (Salix lutea)
Bark
with whitish powdery covering (pruinose)
Erhardt, W., Götz, E., Bödeker, N. & Seybold, S. (2008): Der große Zander. Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. Band 2. Arten und Sorten. Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart (Hohenheim), 18. Aufl., 2103 S.; Kew Gardens and Collaborators (2017): Plants of the World Online. see: plantsoftheworldonline.org.; The International Plant Names Index (2009). Published on the Internet http://www.ipni.org; Courtesy to IPNI, 2009. Exported from IPNI at date: 2009-09-22 20:17:51; USDA, NRCS (2019): The PLANTS Database. National Plant Data Team, Greensboro, NC, USA. See: http://plants.usda.gov;
Taxonomic update: Database method on: 13.1.2021Update of the description: Matthias Krause; latest by: Matthias Krause on: 15.5.2019In the list below you will find the geographic coordinates of many woody plants in the garden. In these cases the points are marked in the map. If no coordinates are listed, the coordinate of the point in the map marks the middle coordinate of the section.