Salix Salix, L.

55. S. hastata L. View in CoL , Sp. Pl. 1017 (1753).

Ascending or erect shrub up to 1 - 5 m. Branches greenish or brownish, shiny, glabrous. Leaves broadly elliptical or obovate, sometimes lanceolate, very variable in size and outline, rather thin, not shiny, pale and dull green above, paler but without a bloom beneath, somewhat hairy when young, soon glabrous; venation finely reticulate but scarcely prominent; margin entire or more or less finely serrate; petiole up to 1 cm. Stipules often well-developed, obliquely ovate, serrate. Female catkins 6(-10) x l (-2) cm, dense-flowered; peduncle up to 3 cm, leafy. Bracts with long white hairs. Pedicel i as long as the ovary, glabrous in the second or third year. Leaves narrowly elliptical to oblong. Nectaries | as long as the pedicel. 2n = c. 110. N. & C. Europe, locally on mountains in the south. Al Au Cz Da Fe Ga Ge He Hs It Ju No Po Rm Rs (N, W) Su.

A polymorphic species of wide distribution, divisible into at least 3 subspecies.

1 Petiole 2-3 mm; leaves orbicular (b) subsp. vegeta

1 Petiole more than 3 mm; leaves broadly elliptical, obovate or

narrower

2 Leaveslanceolate,entire (c) subsp. subintegrifolia

2 Leaves broadly elliptical or obovate, finely serrate (b) subsp. hastata