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Scientific name:

Salix lanata

Vernacular name:

Willow, Woolly


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Woolly Willow

Scientific name: Salix lanata L.

Diagnostic features
Low shrub to 1m.
Twigs pubescent at first, soon glabrous, ± glossy, brown.
Leaves 3.5-7 x 3-6.5cm, densely white-tomentose at first, becoming subglabrous with age, entire or subentire.
Stamens free.

Chromosome number: 2n=38.

Habitat
Native; damp mountain rock-ledges.

Distribution
Local, highlands of Central Scotland.

This species is keyed out on Page 1596 in the Text Key.

Hybrids
- Salix lapponum x Salix lanata (=Salix x stuartii hort.) occurs in South Aberdeen and Angus; endemic.
- Salix x sadleri Syme (= Salix lanata x Salix herbacea) occurs with the parents in Central-east Scotland.

Salix lanata (Willow, Woolly)
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