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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   Go to FSUS key



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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image of Salix ×rubens, Crack Willow, Brittle Willow

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_safr_001_lvd

        

image of Salix ×rubens, Crack Willow, Brittle Willow

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

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

 

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