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Salix serissima ~ autumn willow

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Characteristics:

• OBL

• Michigan C Value: 8

• medium–sized shrub, 2–4 m

• flowers May–June, fruits late summer to early fall

• leaves dark green and glossy above, whitened beneath and with fine reticulate venation pattern

• leaf margins finely glandular–serrulate

• branchlets shiny

• this species may be confused with S.lucida (may hybridize); however, S. lucida leaves are non– glaucous beneath and have prominent stipules (1–6 mm wide) with conspicuous glands on the margins.

• usually in calcareous places

• native