Salicaceae FAMILY Least Concern

Salix melanopsis

Edibility

1/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Salix melanopsis is a deciduous shrub or a tree growing from a vigorous, spreading, rhizomatous rootstock; it can produce a thicket of stems 1 - 8 metres tall, occasionally becoming taller with reports of some specimens reaching 18 metres tall[ 270 Title Flora of N. America Publication Author Website http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/fna/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An on-line version of the flora with an excellent description of the plant including a brief mention of plant uses. , 876 Title The American Woods (in 14 volumes) Publication Author Hough R.B. Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org Publisher Romeyn B. Hough Co.; New York Year 1888 - 1928 ISBN Description Detailed information, with photographs, of the woods of almost 400 species of American trees. It can be downloaded from the Internet. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine and source of materials. Salix melanopsis has a relatively restricted range, but much larger than the thresholds for a threatened category, and while it is possibly declining in parts of its range, it is not thought that any global population decline is likely to meet (or be close to meeting) the threshold for Vulnerable. The plant is classified as 'Least Concern' in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species(2016)[ 338 Title IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Publication Author Website http://www.iucnredlist.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description A list of plants under threat and facing possible extinction, usually with brief details of the threats and information on habitat. ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintemperate

Native RangeWestern N. America - British Columbia and Alberta, south to California, Nevada and Colorado

HabitatSandbars along lowland ponds, lakes and streams in moist sand or gravel overladen with silt[ 229 Title The Complete Trees of N. America. Field Guide and Natural History. Publication Author Elias. T. Publisher Van Nostrand Reinhold Co. Year 1980 ISBN 0442238622 Description A very good concise guide. Gives habitats, good descriptions, maps showing distribution and a few of the uses. It also includes the many shrubs that occasionally reach tree proportions. ]. Riparian habitats, floodplains, stream banks, subalpine meadows and coarse textured substrates and silts; at elevations from 600 - 3,100 metres[ 338 Title IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Publication Author Website http://www.iucnredlist.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description A list of plants under threat and facing possible extinction, usually with brief details of the threats and information on habitat. ]