Shining willow

Salix lucida

Salix lucida, the shining willow, Pacific willow, or whiplash willow, is a species of willow native to northern and western North America, occurring in wetland habitats.

It is a deciduous large shrub or small tree growing to 4–11 m tall. The shoots are greenish-brown to grey-brown. The leaves are narrow-elliptic to lanceolate, 4–17 cm long and 1-3.5 cm broad, glossy dark green above, usually glaucous green below, hairless or thinly hairy. The flowers are yellow catkins 1–9 cm long, produced in late spring after the leaves emerge.

It is closely related to Salix pentandra of Europe and Asia.
Salix lucida Salix lucida (Shining Willow) fruiting catkin. A small woody shrub growing in a shrub carr/sedge meadow with other willow species. Geotagged,Minnesota,Salix lucida,Shining Willow,Spring,United States,shrub carr,wetlands

Naming

Salix lucida Muhlenberg, Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin Neue Schriften. 4: 239, plate 6, fig. 7. 1803.
Pleiarina lucida (Muhlenberg) N. Chao & G. T. Gong
Salix lucida var. angustifolia (Andersson) Andersson
Salix. lucida var. intonsa Fernald

Nomenclature changes:
Salix lucida subsp. lasiandra E. Murray, the Pacific Willow which ranges from Alaska east to Northwest Territory, and south to California and New Mexico, is no longer an active name. This subspecies has been shifted to its own species Salix lasiandra Benth. This change includes Salix lasiandra subsp. caudata E. Murray, the Whiplash Willow, interior western North America from eastern British Columbia south to eastern California and Nevada.
Salix lucida Salix lucida (Shining Willow) leaf underside. A small woody shrub growing in a shrub carr/sedge meadow with other willow species. Geotagged,Minnesota,Salix lucida,Shining Willow,Spring,United States,shrub carr,wetlands

Distribution

St. Pierre and Miquelon; Man., N.B., Nfld. and Labr., N.S., Ont., P.E.I., Que., Sask.; Conn., Del., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Maine, Md., Mass., Mich., Minn., N.H., N.J., N.Y., N.Dak., Ohio, Pa., R.I., S.Dak., Vt., Va., W.Va., Wis.
Salix lucida Salix lucida (Shining Willow) leaf uppersides and new stem growth. A small woody shrub growing in a shrub carr/sedge meadow with other willow species. Geotagged,Minnesota,Salix lucida,Shining Willow,Spring,United States,shrub carr,wetlands

Habitat

Sandy or gravelly floodplains, lake margins, sedge meadows, vernal pools, alvars, open fens, marl bogs, treed bogs.

Reproduction

Flowering early May-mid July. Spreads by seeds and branch fragments.

Predators

Isochnus populicola Silfverberg and Isochnus rufipes LeConte (both Coleoptera: Curculionidae) eat the leaves.
Willow sawfly larvae (Nematus ssp., Hymenoptera) eat the leaves of many willow species.

References:

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salix_lucida
https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/species/salix/lucida/
https://www.calflora.org//cgi-bin/species_query.cgi?where-calrecnum=8428
https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=SALUL
http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=242445775
https://bugguide.net/node/view/66091
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nematus
http://www.agr.gc.ca/eng/science-and-innovation/agricultural-practices/agroforestry/diseases-and-pests/willow-sawfly/?id=1198260876537

Nathan E. Harms and M. J. Grodowitz (2009). Insect Herbivores of Aquatic and Wetland Plants in the United States: a Checklist From Literature. J. Aquat. Plant Manage.47: 73-96. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268053082_Insect_Herbivores_of_Aquatic_and_Wetland_Plants_in_the_United_States_a_Checklist_From_Literature
Taxonomy
KingdomPlantae
DivisionAngiosperms
ClassEudicots
OrderMalpighiales
FamilySalicaceae
GenusSalix
SpeciesS. lucida
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United States of America