NameThatPlant.net: Salix atrocinerea

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Malpighiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Salix atrocinerea FAMILY Salicaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

The group of S. cinerea-atrocinerea-caprea are not always clean-cut to ID to species. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Salix atrocinerea FAMILY Salicaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Salix atrocinerea

SYNONYMOUS WITH New England Wildflower Society’s Flora Novae Angliae (Haines, 2011)

Salix cinerea ssp. oleifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 7 (2010)

Salix atrocinerea

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 051-01-005?:

Salix cinerea FAMILY Salicaceae

COMMON NAME:
Olive-leaf Willow, Common Sallow, Large Gray Willow

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Salix atrocinerea FAMILY Salicaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Salix atrocinerea FAMILY Salicaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Salix atrocinerea

SYNONYMOUS WITH New England Wildflower Society’s Flora Novae Angliae (Haines, 2011)
Salix cinerea ssp. oleifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 7
Salix atrocinerea

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 051-01-005?:
Salix cinerea FAMILY Salicaceae

4423

Shrub; Tree
Perennial
Dioecious

Habitat: Disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: western Europe

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:
Capsule

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004) p314

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