Salicaceae FAMILY Least Concern

Salix pedicellaris

Edibility

1/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Salix pedicellaris is an erect to decumbent or trailing, deciduous shrub growing 20 - 150cm tall. Stems often form new roots where they touch the ground, these developing into new growth, the plant forming clumps[ 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. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine. Salix pedicellaris is widespread 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 RangeNorthern N. America - Yukon to British Columbia, Oregon and Idaho east to southern Nunavut, Labador and Newfoundland, south to Iowa and Pennsylvania

HabitatCalcium-rich wetlands, shores of rivers or lakes and swamps[ 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. ]. Sphagnum bogs, fens, black spruce treed bogs; at elevations up to 1,400 metres[ 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. ].