Salix bebbiana is a species of willow indigenous to Canada and the northern United States, from Alaska and Yukon south to California and Arizona and northeast to Newfoundland and New England.[2] Common names include beaked willow, long-beaked willow, gray willow, and Bebb's willow.
This species is also called red willow by Native Americans according to The Arctic Prairies Appendix E by Ernest Tompson Seton.
Leaf underside
This plant is typically a large, fast-growing, multiple-stemmed shrub or small, shrubby tree capable of forming dense, colonial thickets. It can be found in loose, saturated soils such as that on riverbanks, lake sides, swamps, marshes, and bogs. It is capable of tolerating heavy clay and rocky soils, making it highly adaptable and durable. It is a dominant species in many marshland areas in its native range. Large shrub or small bushy tree from 5 to 20 feet in height with a trunk up to about 8 inches in diameter. The trunk is short and twisted with a broadly rounded crown.[2]
Leaves are alternately arranged, simple, and ovate in shape, widest near the midrib and narrowing to a tapering base and pointed tip. The leaf edges are generally entire, though sometimes finely serrated. The leaves are dull blue-green in color and smooth in texture when mature; new leaves are coated in downy hairs. The leaves are up to 5 in long and 1.5 in wide. Like other willows, this plant is dioecious, with male and female plants producing small, dangling catkins. Female flowers yield spherical seeds covered in long, threadlike fibers that help them disperse on the wind. The plant also spreads via vegetative reproduction, sprouting from the base of the stem or from segments of root, and by layering, allowing the plant to form colonies of clones.[3]
This is the most important species of diamond willow, a type of willow which produces fine, colorful wood used for carving.[3] The twigs and branches are used by Native Americans for basket weaving and arrowmaking.[3] Important host plant to 312 species of butterflies and moths
Many parts of the plant are consumed by animals, especially domestic cattle, which find the foliage a palatable forage.[3]
This species readily hybridizes with several other species of willow.[4]
There seems to be no commercial importance for the plant.[2]
^Maiz-Tome, L. (2016). "Salix bebbiana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T64324259A67730787. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T64324259A67730787.en. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
^ abcGrimm, William Carey (1966). The Book of Trees. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: The Stockpole Company. p. 109.
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