Salix exigua subsp. exigua

PLANTS: Shrub 0.5-5 m tall. STEMS: branches hairy becoming glabrous, branchlets yellow- to red-brown, short-silky, tomentose, silky-villous, or puberulent. LEAVES: stipules leaflike or rudimentary; petioles pubescent. INFLORESCENCE: floral bracts 1.2-1.6 mm long, with wavy or straight hairs, the apices rounded. STAMINATE FLOWERS: nectaries broad, 0.3-0.8 mm long. PISTILLATE FLOWERS: in catkins 10-50 mm long; flowering branchlets 4-65 mm long; ovaries glabrous, sometimes sparsely hairy on beak; stigmas 0.28-0.44 mm long; nectary broad to half-cup-shaped. 2n = 38. NOTES: See the parent taxon for further description. Warm temperate; thickets along rivers, cienegas, and wet ditches; all counties except La Paz Co.; 350-2800 m (1100-8500 ft); Mar-Jun and throughout year; s Alberta, British Columbia, Can.; s in mountains and Great Basin to NM, w TX; s to adj. Mex. Figure 8. REFERENCES: Argus, George W. 1995. SalicaceaePart 2. Salix. J. Ariz. - Nev. Acad. Sci. 29(1): 39