Salix discolor Muhl.
Detail
- Family
- Salicaceae
- Botanical Name
- Salix discolor Muhl.
- Common Name
- Pussy Willow
- Synonym(s)
- Flora of Virginia Name/Status
- Salix discolor Muhl.
- Comments
- Known from just a single station in Virginia, a calcareous spring marsh in Augusta Co. Found by G. P. Fleming & C. E. Stevens in 1992 and reported as new to Virginia in Castanea 61:93-94 (1996). This northern shrub willow is also frequently planted for ornament, but is not known to escape here.
- Habitat
- Edges of a calcareous fen and spring marsh. Rare, mountains; known only from one site, in the Ridge and Valley region of Augusta County.
- Native Status
- Native
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