Salix petiolaris - Saule

Branche pourpre foncé, jeunes feuilles soyeuses devenant glabres mesurant 4 à 10 cm de long et 8 à 16 mm de large et munies de petites dents; stipules linéaires et décidues. Les fleurs paraissent avant les feuilles au printemps. Saule caractéristique des marécages de l’ouest du Québec.

Slender Willow - Meadow Willow

Branch dark purple, young leaves silky becoming glabrous, 4-10 cm long and 8-16 mm wide with small teeth; stipules linear and deciduous. The flowers appear before the leaves in spring. Willow characteristic of the swamps of western Quebec where it blooms around the first week of May. It forms willow groves where the higher heads of the discoloured willow point here and there.

13' - 4m

6.5' -2m