Salix interior Rowlee
Detail
- Family
- Salicaceae
- Botanical Name
- Salix interior Rowlee
- Common Name
- Sandbar Willow
- Synonym(s)
- Salix exigua Nutt. var. sericans (Nees) Nesom; Salix exigua Nutt. ssp. interior (Rowlee) Cronquist; Salix exigua Nutt. var. exterior (Fernald) C. F. Reed
- Flora of Virginia Name/Status
- Salix interior Rowlee
- Comments
- This taxon is often treated as a subspecies or variety of the western Salix exigua Nutt. However, G.W. Argus, a long-time expert on Salix and FNA author, argues (in FNA, Vol. 7) that "Salix exigua and S. interior hybridize and apparently intergrade in the western Great Plains; because the area of overlap is relatively small and distinctiveness of the two taxa is not compromised by hybridization and introgression, it is best to treat them as separate species."
- Habitat
- River and stream banks, rocky flood-scoured shores and bars, sand and gravel bars, and ditches. Rare in all provinces, occurring here at the eastern edge of its range; known only from the Potomac River drainage in the n. Piedmont, the City of Virginia Beach in the se. Coastal Plain, and scattered localities in the sw. mountains.
- Native Status
- Native
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