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|familia=Salicaceae
|genus=Salix
|species=lucida
|taxo_author=Muhl.
|common_name=Shiny willow
|name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|habit=tree
|habit_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
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|Max ht metric=ft
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|lifespan=perennial
|life_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|exposure=sun
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|water=wet, moist
|water_ref=Sunset National Garden Book
|features=flowers
|flower_season=early spring, mid spring, late spring
|flower_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|flowers=orange, yellow
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'''''Salix lucida''''' ('''Shining Willow''', '''Pacific Willow''', or '''Whiplash Willow''') is a species of [[willow]] native to northern and western [[North America]], occurring in [[wetland]] habitats.<ref name=grin>Germplasm Resources Information Network: [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?316020 ''Salix lucida'']</ref><ref name=jeps>Jepson Flora: [http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?Salix+lucida ''Salix lucida'']</ref><ref name=bc>Plants of British Columbia: [http://linnet.geog.ubc.ca/Atlas/Atlas.aspx?sciname=Salix+lucida ''Salix lucida'']</ref>

It is a [[deciduous]] large [[shrub]] or small [[tree]] growing to 4–11 m tall. The shoots are greenish-brown to grey-brown. The [[leaf|leaves]] are narrow elliptic to lanceolate, 4–17 cm long and 1-3.5 cm broad, glossy dark green above, usually glaucous green below, hairless or thinly hairy. The [[flower]]s are yellow [[catkin]]s 1–9 cm long, produced in late spring after the leaves emerge.<ref name=jeps/><ref name=bc/><ref name=npwrc>Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: [http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/plants/vascplnt/species/sluc.htm ''Salix lucida'']</ref> <br clear=left>

{{Inc|
Salix lucida, Muhl. Shrub or low bushy tree, 6-15 ft. high: branches yellowish brown and highly polished: buds large, flattened, and recurved at the apex: lvs. large, broadly lanceolate-acuminate, serrate, dark green, shining above: aments large, appearing with the lvs.; scale pale green, deciduous; stamens 4-5; ovary pedicelled, rather obtuse, glabrous. E. N. Amer.—A beautiful plant, deserving of more extensive cult.
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==Varieties==
There are two or three [[subspecies]]:<ref name=grin/><ref name=jeps/><ref name=bc/>
*''Salix lucida'' subsp. ''lucida''. '''Shining Willow'''. [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]] west to eastern [[Saskatchewan]], and south to [[Maryland]] and [[South Dakota]].
*''Salix lucida'' subsp. ''lasiandra'' (Benth.) E.Murray (syn. ''S. lasiandra'' Benth.). '''Pacific Willow'''. [[Alaska]] east to [[Northwest Territory]], and south to [[California]] and [[New Mexico]].
*''Salix lucida'' subsp. ''caudata'' (Nutt.) E.Murray. '''Whiplash Willow'''. Interior western North America from eastern British Columbia south to eastern California and Nevada. Included in subsp. ''lasiandra'' by some authors.

It is closely related to ''[[Salix pentandra]]'' of Europe and Asia.<ref name=bean4>Bean, W. J. (1980). ''Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles'' 8th ed., vol. 4. John Murray ISBN 0-7195-2428-8.</ref>

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==References==
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
<!--- xxxxx  *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381  -->
<!--- xxxxx  *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432  -->
<!--- xxxxx  *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608  -->

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