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| origin = ?  <!--- Mexico, S America, S Europe, garden, etc -->
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| lifespan = perennial
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| exposure = full sun{{SSN}}
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| color = IndianRed
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| image = Salix myrtilloides.jpg
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| image_caption = ''Salix myrtilloides'' in Northern Norway
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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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Salix myrtilloides, Linn. Fig. 3526. A shrub, 2-5 ft. high, with rather slender brown twigs: lvs. oblong or elliptic-obovate, usually obtuse at both ends, entire and smooth, reticulate-veined: aments rather few-fld.: caps. reddish, glabrous. N. E. N. Amer. and Eu. Usually grows in cold peat-bogs.—Probably not in cult. The plant sold under this name is probably some form of S. purpurea, which S. myrtilloides closely resembles in general appearance.
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'''''[[Salix]] myrtilloides'''''. A shrub, 2-5 ft. high, with rather slender brown twigs: lvs. oblong or elliptic-obovate, usually obtuse at both ends, entire and smooth, reticulate-veined: aments rather few-fld.: caps. reddish, glabrous. N. E. N. Amer. and Eu. Usually grows in cold peat-bogs.—Probably not in cult. The plant sold under this name is probably some form of S. purpurea, which S. myrtilloides closely resembles in general appearance.
 
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==Cultivation==
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| color = lightgreen
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===Propagation===
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| image_caption = ''Salix myrtilloides'' in Northern Norway
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===Pests and diseases===
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| classis = [[Dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]
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| ordo = [[Malpighiales]]
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==Species==
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| familia = [[Salicaceae]]
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| genus = ''[[Willow|Salix]]''
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| species = '''''S. myrtilloides'''''
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| binomial = ''Salix myrtilloides''
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'''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]].
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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").
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==References==
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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<!--- xxxxx  *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381  -->
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<!--- xxxxx  *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432  -->
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<!--- xxxxx  *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608  -->
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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.
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[[Category:Salicaceae|Willow, Swamp]]
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