BC, Wells Gra, 20080519
Edgewood Blue, shrubs.
Willows and a shrub along my favorite little causeway.
Salix sitchensis []
| | LF | | v strongly strig bel, essentially glab ab except a tiny fuzz on midrib |
| | FL | | coetaneous, 1 stamen, fil glab, scale black tipped and v strongly long strigose |
Salix pedicellaris []
| | LF | | glauc and thinly strig bel, strongly ciliate, glab above |
| | FL | | coetaneous, two stamens, filaments entirely glab, scale green and hairy |
Really need the female flowers as well to be sure in
H&C keys, but with so many willows right next to each other, how can you be sure you've got the female of the same species??
Salix geyeriana geyeriana []
| | LF | | lightly v fine short crinkly hairy below, only sl more so above, glauc bel, no raised veins |
| | FL | | coetaneous, ov d short hairy, 2 stamens, flaments glab, male has 2 glands female 1, stigma v short ess sess| scale | | pure green, short hairy |
pedicels ~2.5mm, male infl 15mm long, fem infl 25mm long |
Could be same as
?
Lonicera involucrata involucrata []
| | GEN | | shrub, gland-hairy all over |
| | LF | | opp, lance, pin vein, entire, v dk shiny ab |
| | INFL | | in fused pairs in axils w foliaceous anthocyanic bracts surrounding them |
| | SEP | | joined with other flower, short, inconspic |
| | PET | | 5 lobed, yell, 15mm long, nearly symmetric above but with conspic spur at base facing away from other flower |
| | STAM | | 5, fused to petal tube halfway down, barely excl |
| | OV | | inf, 3 chamb, glab, sev ovules in each chamb |
| | STYLE | | one, stigma capitate, sl excl |
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