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|familia=Salicaceae
 
|familia=Salicaceae
|genus=Salix  
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|genus=Salix
 
|species=sericea
 
|species=sericea
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|taxo_author=Marshall
 
|common_name=Silky willow
 
|common_name=Silky willow
 
|name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
 
|name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
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|exposure=sun
 
|exposure=sun
 
|sun_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
 
|sun_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
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|water=wet, moist
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|water_ref=Sunset National Garden Book
 
|flower_season=early spring, mid spring, late spring
 
|flower_season=early spring, mid spring, late spring
 
|flower_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
 
|flower_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
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|image_width=240
 
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'''''Salix sericea''''', also known as '''silky willow''', is a shrub in the [[Salicaceae]] family that grows in swamps and along rivers in eastern [[United States]] and [[Canada]]. It is 2–4 m tall and has long, thin, purplish twigs.
| name = ''Salix sericea''
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The leaves are 6–10 cm long, 7–8 mm wide, [[wikt:lanceolate|lanceolate]], [[wikt:acuminate|acuminate]], [[wikt:serrulat|serrulate]], dark green and lightly hairy on top, and light green and densely covered with white silky hairs underneath. Mature leaves are [[wikt:glabrous|glabrous]]. The [[Petiole (botany)|petiole]]s are 1 cm long. [[Catkin]]s are [[wikt:sessile|sessile]] and usually [[wikt:bracteate|bracteate]]. ''Salix sericea'' blooms in [[May]] and fruits in June.
| common_names = Silky Willow
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| growth_habit = shrub
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| origin = ?  <!--- Mexico, S America, S Europe, garden, etc -->
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| lifespan = perennial
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| bloom =    <!--- seasons which the plant blooms, if it is grown for its flowers -->
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| usda_zones = ?  <!--- eg. 8-11 -->
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| color = IndianRed
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| regnum = Plantae
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| divisio = Magnoliophyta
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| classis = Magnoliopsida
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| ordo = Malpighiales
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| familia = Salicaceae
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| genus = Salix
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| species = sericea
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'''''[[Salix]] sericea'''''. Silky Willow. A shrub usually 4-8 ft. high, diffusely spreading from base: branches often reddish: buds obtuse and rounded at apex, cylindrical: lvs. very silky beneath, sometimes becoming less so at maturity: aments densely fld., appearing with the lvs.; stamens often orange-red: caps. short-pedicelled, ovate-oblong, nearly truncate at apex. N. E. N. Amer.
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'''''[[Salix]] sericea'''''. Silky Willow. A shrub usually 4-8 ft. high, diffusely spreading from base: branches often reddish: buds obtuse and rounded at apex, cylindrical: lvs. very silky beneath, sometimes becoming less so at maturity: aments densely fld., appearing with the lvs.; stamens often orange-red: caps. short-pedicelled, ovate-oblong, nearly truncate at apex. NE N. Amer.
 
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==Cultivation==
 
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==References==
 
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
 
*[[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  -->
 
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