Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Salix scouleriana
- Family
- Salicaceae
- CommonName
- Scouler’s willow
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1927
- LatestDate
- 2021
- Ecosystem
- foothill, montane
- Geobotanical
- SSanjuans, NCristos
- Counties
- Conejos, Rio Grande, Saguache, Archuleta
- Passes
- Cumbres, Elwood, Music
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- Comments
- Scouler's willow grows on well-drained slopes, often quite steep ones, sometimes in the shade of trees, usually as solitary shrubs. Salix scouleriana can also grow lake side and creek side. There are not many records from the Watershed. The area around Cumbres pass in Conejos Co has produced a cluster of records (1927-2003). Kittel (2023) shows the presence of Salix scourleriana in all Watershed counties except for Alamosa and Costilla. Along with its habitat, unusual for a willow, on dry slopes distant from water, its leaves are distinctive: obovate, Irregularly and vaguely serrate or crenate, widest at a point nearer the apex than the cuneate base, under side reticulate somewhat as a S. bebbiana leaf. Note that the species hybridizes with other willows such as S. planifolia. It is present in every state west of the Great Plains, following the Rio Grande drainage down through New Mexico to the border with Texas.
- Annotation