Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Malpighiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Salix ×rubens
FAMILY
Salicaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Salix fragilis
FAMILY
Salicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Salix ×fragilis
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular flora of Illinois (Mohlenbrock, 2014)
Salix ×rubens
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 7 (2010)
Salix ×fragilis
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Salix fragilis
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Salix fragilis
COMMON NAME:
Crack Willow, Brittle Willow
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_safr_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / US Forest Service pnd_safr_002_lhd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Salix ×rubens
FAMILY
Salicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Salix fragilis
FAMILY
Salicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Salix ×fragilis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Vascular flora of Illinois (Mohlenbrock, 2014)
Salix ×rubens
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 7
Salix ×fragilis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Salix fragilis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Salix fragilis
2582
Tree
Perennial
Dioecious
Habitat: Low areas, per Weakley's Flora
Non-native hybrid: the parent species native to the Old World [S. alba × fragilis]
Rare
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LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Alternate
FLOWER:
Spring
Sepals absent
Petals absent
Superior ovary
Unisexual
Flowers in catkins, inflorescence usually erect
FRUIT:
Spring
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Invasive Plants, Guide to Identification, Impacts and Control (Kaufman & Kaufman, 2007) p122
- Trees of the Southeastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1988) p266
- Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004) p317
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