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Salix polaris (polar willow)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Salix polaris (polar willow) is a species of willow with a circumpolar distribution in the high arctic tundra, extending north to the limits of land, and south of the Arctic in the mountains of Norway, the northern Ural Mountains, the northern Altay Mountains, Kamchatka, and British Columbia, Canada.
View Wikipedia Record: Salix polaris

Infraspecies

Salix polaris var. calva
Salix polaris var. polaris

Attributes

Bloom Period [1]  Spring
Drought Tolerance [1]  None
Fire Tolerance [1]  Medium
Frost Free Days [1]  47 days
Fruit/Seed Abundance [1]  High
Growth Form [1]  Rhizomatous
Growth Rate [1]  Moderate
Hazards [1]  Slight Toxicity
Leaf Type [2]  Deciduous
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Propagation [1]  Cutting, Seed, Sprig
Root Depth [1]  12 inches (30 cm)
Seed Spread Rate [1]  Rapid
Shape/Orientation [1]  Erect
Structure [2]  Shrub
Vegetative Spread Rate [1]  Moderate
Flower Color [1]  Purple
Foliage Color [1]  Green
Height [1]  3.937 inches (0.1 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [1]  USDA Zone: 0 Low Temperature: -65 F° (-53.9 C°) → -60 F° (-51.1 C°)
Soil Acidity [1]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [1]  Infertile
Screening - Summer [1]  Moderate
Screening - Winter [1]  Moderate

Predators

Lagopus lagopus (Willow Ptarmigan)[3]
Lagopus muta (Rock Ptarmigan)[3]

Providers

Pollinated by 
Thricops furcatus[4]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0