7,617
edits
Changes
no edit summary
{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = Swamp Willow
| status =
secure
| image = Salix myrtilloides.jpg
| image_caption = ''Salix myrtilloides'' in Northern Norway
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Malpighiales]]
| familia = [[Salicaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Willow|Salix]]''
| species = '''''S. myrtilloides'''''
| binomial = ''Salix myrtilloides''
| binomial_authority = [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]]
}}
'''Swamp Willow''' (''Salix myrtilloides'') is a [[shrub]]by [[willow]] native to [[bog]]lands in subarctic and arctic [[Europe]] and [[Asia]], with a few small isolated populations further south in [[mountain]] bogs in the [[Alps]].
The [[leaf|leaves]] resemble [[Bilberry|Bog Bilberry]] (''Vaccinium uliginosum'') (hence the name in the [[Finnish language|Finnish]] and [[Swedish language|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 (biology)|variety]] of Swamp Willow ''S. myrtilloides'' var. ''pedicellaris'' by some botanists.
{{Commons|Salix myrtilloides}}
[[Category:Salicaceae|Willow, Swamp]]
| color = lightgreen
| name = Swamp Willow
| status =
secure
| image = Salix myrtilloides.jpg
| image_caption = ''Salix myrtilloides'' in Northern Norway
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Malpighiales]]
| familia = [[Salicaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Willow|Salix]]''
| species = '''''S. myrtilloides'''''
| binomial = ''Salix myrtilloides''
| binomial_authority = [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]]
}}
'''Swamp Willow''' (''Salix myrtilloides'') is a [[shrub]]by [[willow]] native to [[bog]]lands in subarctic and arctic [[Europe]] and [[Asia]], with a few small isolated populations further south in [[mountain]] bogs in the [[Alps]].
The [[leaf|leaves]] resemble [[Bilberry|Bog Bilberry]] (''Vaccinium uliginosum'') (hence the name in the [[Finnish language|Finnish]] and [[Swedish language|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 (biology)|variety]] of Swamp Willow ''S. myrtilloides'' var. ''pedicellaris'' by some botanists.
{{Commons|Salix myrtilloides}}
[[Category:Salicaceae|Willow, Swamp]]