Swamp Willow

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Swamp Willow
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Salix myrtilloides in Northern Norway
Salix myrtilloides in Northern Norway
Plant Info
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Salicaceae
Genus: Salix
Species: S. myrtilloides

Binomial name
Salix myrtilloides
L.

Swamp Willow (Salix myrtilloides) is a shrubby willow native to boglands in subarctic and arctic Europe and Asia, with a few small isolated populations further south in mountain bogs in the Alps.

The leaves resemble Bog Bilberry (Vaccinium uliginosum) (hence the name in the Finnish and Swedish languages which translates as "Bog Bilberry Willow").

A very similar closely related species, the Bog Willow (Salix pedicellaris), occurs in northern North America; it is classified as a variety of Swamp Willow S. myrtilloides var. pedicellaris by some botanists.

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