Salix humilis var. humilis staminate catkin

This shrub is 0.5 to 2.5 meters tall, often branching near the base and toward the tips of older stems. Woody stems are terete and variably colored – usually some shade of yellowish tan, brown, or gray. Young woody stems are often short-pubescent, but they become glabrous with age. New shoots are light green and short-pubescent. Alternate leaves occur along young stems and shoots. The leaf blades are 45 to 100 millimeters long and 6 to 180 millimeters across; they are narrowly lanceolate, oblanceolate,.. more