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Salix at Jasper Ridge

prepared by John Rawlings

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Salix exigua var. hindsiana   Sandbar willow

John Rawlings, Sara Timby   2019-12-07

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford University; south of Boat Launch (Searsville Lab Landing), SW lake margin
San Mateo County

Notes: dense clonal stand at SW lake margin; scattered individuals elsewhere


freshwater marsh Willow riparian woodland, with Salix exigua var. hindsiana, Salix lasiolepis, Salix lasiandra, Salix laevigata

freshwater marsh Willow riparian woodland, with Salix exigua var. hindsiana, Salix lasiolepis, Salix lasiandra, Salix laevigata

vegetative reproduction from rhizomes at boat dock area

po188234

Salix exigua var. hindsiana   Sandbar willow

John Rawlings, Diane Renshaw, Sara Timby   2021-05-01

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford University; Rd E
San Mateo County

Notes: Rhizomatous thicket-forming or growing as small tree as component of willow canopy in freshwater marsh; vegetative and flowering (staminate) branches from the same tree; florets with 2 stamens. Field identification by leaf blade gestalt (see below >>>). Other characters examined when available: pistillate capsules hairy. "Variety hindsiana is difficult to separate morphologically from var. exigua . . . It can be distinguished from var. exigua by its soft, spreading hairs on branchlets and juvenile leaves" (FNA). >>> Leaf blade conspicuously silvery-green, similar on both sides, densely hairy to silky villous, especially on young leaves. Leaf shape narrow, linear or linear-lanceolate . . . S. exigua var. hindsiana


vegetative and flowering branches

small tree along Causeway in riparian willow woodland

shrub; small patch

staminate catkin

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Salix exigua var. hindsiana   Sandbar willow

John Rawlings, Diane Renshaw   2021-11-04

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Causeway, Trail 13, Corte Madrea Creek Delta area
San Mateo County

Notes: Extensive patch for 50m+ of tall, mature Sandbar Willow on the N. side of the causeway.


Exceptionally tall Salix exigua var. hindsiana, 5+ mature trees in this patch.

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Salix exigua var. hindsiana   Sandbar willow

John Rawlings, Ken Hickman   2021-09-01

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve; Corte Madera Creek Delta area
San Mateo County

Notes: Colonizing former lakebed, with large Arroyo, Pacific and Red willow


Arroyo, Pacific and Red willow in background

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Salix exigua var. hindsiana   Sandbar willow

Diane Renshaw   2021-11-06

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, west side of Searsville Reservoir
San Mateo County

Notes: A linear stand of Sandbar Willow along the W side of Searsville Reservoir, on old imported sand brought in for a historical recreational beach.


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Salix exigua var. hindsiana   Sandbar willow

Diane Renshaw   2021-11-06

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, west side of Searsville Reservoir
San Mateo County

Notes: Near the S. end of a linear stand of Sandbar Willow, growing on imported sand of a historical recreational beach


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Salix exigua var. hindsiana   Sandbar willow

John Rawlings, Sara Timby   2021-12-03

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve; Trail 14 X Road E
San Mateo County

Notes: pistillate individual just beginning to bloom; new leaves and old leaves on same branchlet


dehisced bud scale on left

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Salix exigua var. hindsiana   Sandbar willow

Diane Renshaw   2021-11-06

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, west side of Searsville Reservoir
San Mateo County

Notes: N end of a linear stand of Sandbar Willow, growing on imported sand of an historical recreational beach


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Salix exigua var. hindsiana   Sandbar willow

Diane Renshaw   2021-11-06

Location: Crowded plants in a linear stand of Sandbar Willow, growing on imported sand of a historical recreational beach. Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve.
San Mateo County

Notes: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, west side of Searsville Reservoir


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Salix exigua var. hindsiana   Sandbar willow

Diane Renshaw   2021-11-06

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, west side of Searsville Reservoir
San Mateo County

Notes: A linear stand of Sandbar Willow along the W side of Searsville Reservoir, on old imported sand brought in for a historical recreational beach.


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Salix exigua var. hindsiana   Sandbar willow

John Rawlings, Diane Renshaw   2021-11-05

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Causeway, N side of Trail 13
San Mateo County

Notes: Prominent patch of Sandbar Willows, 25-30 ft tall; in a patch of +/- 5-10 individual trees. These share the canopy with Arroyo and Pacific Willows.


Mature Sandbar Willows are canopy co-dominants with Arroyo Willow, Pacific Willow; along the Trail 13 Causeway, Corte Madera Creek Delta, Jasper Ridge Biol Preserve.

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Salix laevigata   Polished willow

John Rawlings, Nona Chiariello, Herbarium Group   2020-10-07

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford University; Searsville Lake north of boat dock
San Mateo County

Notes: Seedlings in lakebed; possibly representing more than one species; four willows ring the lake


Willow seedlings in lakebed; possibly more than one species, four willows ring the lake and create the willow forest at its south end

transplant 6/6/2021

transplant 6/6/2021

po195743

Salix laevigata   Polished willow

John Rawlings, Bill Gomez, Diane Renshaw   2021-09-20

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford University; San Francisquito Creek
San Mateo County

Notes: common


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Salix laevigata   Polished willow

John Rawlings, Sara Timby   2021-06-28

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford University; Trail 12.
San Mateo County

Notes: Large tree streamside; bud scale overlapped


po194881

Salix laevigata   Polished willow

John Rawlings, Ken Hickam   2021-09-03

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve; Corte Madera Creek Delta area
San Mateo County

Notes: Developing woodland of primarily red willow saplings, its S edge about 25 m N of cattail/willow marsh edge


po194885

Salix laevigata   Polished willow

John Rawlings, Ken Hickman   2021-09-01

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve; Corte Madera Creek Delta area
San Mateo County

Notes: bud scales overlapping; growing with Arroyo and Pacific willow


Sandbar willow in foreground colonizing former lakebed, Arroyo, Pacific and Red willow in background

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Salix laevigata   Polished willow

John Rawlings, Sara Timby   2021-06-13

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford U; S side of Trail 13. (mapped as willow #8)
San Mateo County

Notes: largish tree overarching trail; overlapping bud scale margins


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Salix laevigata   Polished willow

John Rawlings, Sara Timby   2021-07-01

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford University; Searsville Lake north of boat dock
San Mateo County

Notes: Plant dug-up from Searsville Lake dry bed October 2020 and grown in a pot in garden; about 3 ft tall


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Salix laevigata   Polished willow

John Rawlings, Sara Timby   2021-06-13

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford U; N side of Trail 13 along Leonard's Bridge
San Mateo County

Notes: 1+ overstory tree, with Salix lasiandra lasiandra and Salix lasiolepis. Serrulate lf blade margin; overlapping bud scale w hairy margin. Mapped as tree #15


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Salix laevigata   Polished willow

John Rawlings, Diane Renshaw, Sara Timby   2021-05-01

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford University; Trail 13 (Mapped as willow #10.5)
San Mateo County

Notes: Staminate tree, component of willow canopy in freshwater marsh; co-dominant with Salix lasiandra and Salix lasiolepis. Field identification by leaf blade gestalt (glabrous, lanceolate to elliptical, apex acute, acuminate, sometimes with drip tip), margins usually finely serrate, and lack of spherical or wart-like glands on petiole below base of leaf blade; other characters examined when available: bud margins overlapping (not fused); stamens 3?7, filaments free or basally connate, anthers 0.4?0.6 mm. Mapped as willow 10.5


abaxial surface

diagnostic character among Preserve willows: bud margins overlapping (not fused)

stamens mostly 6 per floret

Freshwater marsh, Willow riparian woodland, south end of Searsville reservoir, with Salix exigua var. hindsiana, Salix lasiolepis, Salix lasiandra, Salix laevigata

sawfly larvae

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Salix laevigata   Polished willow

John Rawlings   2021-11-10

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford U; Corte Madera Creek from pool at base of dam to Road C
San Mateo County

Notes: mapped as willow #60


sapling

taller deciduous trees with ragged canopies in center of photo are Populus trichocarpa; Red Willow are the two smaller trees in line with and closer to the dam than the Poplars

po192867

Salix laevigata   Polished willow

John Rawlings, Sara Timby   2021-06-25

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford University; Trail 14. Mapped as Red Willow #20
San Mateo County

Notes: Two+ large trees forming dense copse, well developed buds


bud scale and first leaf

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Salix laevigata   Polished willow

John Rawlings, Ken Hickman, Nona Chiariello   2021-10-15

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford U; Searsville Reservoir west side near dam
San Mateo County

Notes: 3 mature trees; developing buds with overlapping scales


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Salix laevigata   Polished willow

John Rawlings, Sara Timby   2021-10-25

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford U; Searsville Reservoir west side near dam; mapped as willow #42
San Mateo County

Notes: Single tree with multiple trunks or small patch; developing buds with overlapping bud scale


po192393

Salix laevigata   Polished willow

John Rawlings, Sara Timby   2021-06-13

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford U; N side of Trail 13 (willow #11)
San Mateo County

Notes: Largish tree arching over trail; green flagged. Serrulate lf blade margin; no petiole glands; conspicuous channeled petioles. Mapped as willow #11


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Salix laevigata   Polished willow

D Renshaw, S Timby, J Rawlings, S Patel   2021-07-09

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford University; Trail 14. Mapped as Willow #21, just north of Big Inlet
San Mateo County

Notes: Two+ large trees forming dense copse, well developed buds


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Salix laevigata   Polished willow

John Rawlings, Diane Reynolds   2021-10-19

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford University; Trail 14 E side of Searsville Reservoir near dam, downslope. Mapped as Red Willow #41
San Mateo County

Notes: Canopy reaching trail; a few trees; developing buds


po195589

Salix laevigata   Polished willow

John Rawlings, Ken Hickman   2021-09-15

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford U; Corte Madera Creek downstream from Searsville Dam, between Bear Creek confluence and Road C bridge
San Mateo County

Notes: Single sapling; other individuals along creek. Bud scale margins overlapping, overlap seam on adaxial bud face


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Salix lasiandra var. lasiandra   Pacific willow

John Rawlings, Nona Chiariello, Herbarium Group   2020-10-07

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford University; Searsville Lake north of boat dock
San Mateo County

Notes: Tricky because the bud scales are hairy all over - more so than i noticed on other trees - but the scale is fused and the stipule and petioles under magnification have significant glands (with unaided vision the glands are cryptic). Lesson is sometimes magnification is required to see diagnostic characters. Isolated tree, vegetative, at edge of reservoir. Red, Sandbar, and Arroyo willows also grow around the reservoir.


Willow seedlings; may be the same successional path that created the willow forest at the south end of the reservoir; see Riparian Willow Woodland photo included in this record

po192408

Salix lasiandra var. lasiandra   Pacific willow

John Rawlings, Sara Timby   2021-06-13

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford U; N side of Trail 13 at wide section of Leonard's Bridge (Mapped as willow #14)
San Mateo County

Notes: Mapped as willow #14


po193533

Salix lasiandra var. lasiandra   Pacific willow

John Rawlings, Sara Timby   2021-07-16

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford University; Trail 12. Mapped as Willow #22
San Mateo County

Notes: large tree; creekside of trail; bud scale margins fused, petiole glands obscure


po194884

Salix lasiandra var. lasiandra   Pacific willow

John Rawlings, Ken Hickman   2021-09-03

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve; Corte Madera Creek Delta area
San Mateo County

Notes: spherical glands, bud scales fused


Sandbar willow in foreground colonizing former lakebed, Arroyo, Pacific and Red willow in background

spherical glands, bud scales fused

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Salix lasiandra var. lasiandra   Pacific willow

John Rawlings, Sara Timby   2021-06-13

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford U; N side of Trail 13 from Causeway bridge
San Mateo County

Notes: Several trees, a few branches overhanging Causeway Bridge


L-R abaxial surface, adaxial

po194340

Salix lasiandra var. lasiandra   Pacific willow

John Rawlings   2021-08-01

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford U; N side of Trail 13 from bridge
San Mateo County

Notes: Group of 3+ trees, a few branches overhanging Causeway Bridge. Buds with fused margins; petioles with wart-like glands


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Salix lasiandra var. lasiandra   Pacific willow

John Rawlings, Rebecca Reynolds, Diane Renshaw, Teal Derrer   2022-12-06

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford University; upper lake area
San Mateo County

Notes: Locally common tree willow


fused bud scale margins

glands on petiole at leaf base

glands on petiole at leaf base

po240813

Salix lasiandra var. lasiandra   Pacific willow

Diane Renshaw, John Rawlings, Teal Derrer, Rebecca Reynolds   2022-12-06

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford University. Upper Lake, in riparian area btwn open water and cleared PG&E ROW.
San Mateo County

Notes: Riparian willow stand dominated by Salix lasiandra var. lasiandra, with Cornus sericea ssp. sericea in the understory. Willow ID confirmed by conspicuously warty petioles and fused bud scales.


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Salix lasiandra var. lasiandra   Pacific willow

John Rawlings, Diane Renshaw, Sara Timby   2021-05-01

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford University; Trail 13 (Mapped as willow 10.7)
San Mateo County

Notes: Co-dominant overstory tree of riparian willow woodland southwest of Searsville Lake, with Salix laevigata and Salix lasiolepis. Field identification by leaf gestalt and petiole glands: blades bifacial, i.e. dark to shiny green above, lighter below, typically lanceolate, acuminate, frequently with long drip tip, finely serrate margins; petiole tip with prominent spherical, wart-like, or leaf-like glands, sometimes visible at arm's-length, sometimes requiring magnification. Other characters examined when available: foliaceous stipules with both marginal glandular teeth and glands adaxially; glabrous capsules; staminate florets with 3-6 stamens, anthers 0.6-1mm, filaments free or connate (FNA). N.B. Individual leaves and all leaves on some branches may not may not express prominent spherical, wart-like, or leaf-like glands. Mapped as willow 10.7


Lanceolate leaves with drip tips, prominent stipules; vegetative branch

conspicuous petiole tip glands and foliaceous stipules with marginal glandular teeth

also shows finely serrate blade margin

Freshwater marsh, Willow riparian woodland, south end of Searsville reservoir, with Salix exigua var. hindsiana, Salix lasiolepis, Salix lasiandra, Salix laevigata

po193400

Salix lasiandra var. lasiandra   Pacific willow

D Renshaw, S Timby, J Rawlings, S Patel   2021-07-09

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve; S side of Trail 13 at Leonards Bridge (mapped as willow #15.3)
San Mateo County

Notes: Tall tree


po193401

Salix lasiandra var. lasiandra   Pacific willow

D Renshaw, S Timby, J Rawlings, S Patel   2021-07-09

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve; N side of Trail 13 at Leonards Bridge (mapped as willow #15.4 - about 33 yards west of east terminus of Leonards Bridge)
San Mateo County

Notes: Tree 60-70 ft tall; maturing flower buds


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Salix lasiandra var. lasiandra   Pacific willow

John Rawlings, Ken Hickman   2021-09-29

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve; N side of Trail 13 at Leonards Bridge (mapped as willow #15.5 - about 30 yards west of east terminus of Leonards Bridge)
San Mateo County

Notes: bud scales fused


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Salix lasiandra var. lasiandra   Pacific willow

Teal Derrer, John Rawlings   2022-11-01

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve
San Mateo County

Notes: tall tree, vegetative, with Salix ladiolepis, S laevigata. Identified by leaf blade shape and fused bud scales


po197889

Salix lasiolepis   Arroyo willow

Diane Renshaw, John Rawlings, Bill Gomez   2021-10-20

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve; San Francisquito Creek, dry creek bed
San Mateo County

Notes: New growth on this Arroyo Willow had prominent and distinctive stipules


Arroyo Willow, Salix lasiolepis, showing distinctive stipules

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Salix lasiolepis   Arroyo willow

John Rawlings, Sara Timby   2021-07-16

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford University; Trail 12. Mapped as Willow #19
San Mateo County

Notes: Large tree streamside; leaf blades entire, enrolled; developing buds 4-5 mm long, margins fused


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Salix lasiolepis   Arroyo willow

Diane Renshaw   2021-10-26

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, willow riparian woodland
San Mateo County

Notes: There were many downed branches at this site due to a storm on 10/24/2021, including this Arroyo Willow with Willow-Apple-Gall Sawfly galls, Pontania californica.


Salix lasiolepis, downed branch; with Pontania californica, Willow-Apple-Gall Sawfly

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Salix lasiolepis   Arroyo willow

John Rawlings, Ken Hickman   2021-09-01

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve; Corte Madera Creek Delta area
San Mateo County


Sandbar willow in foreground colonizing former lakebed, Arroyo, Pacific and Red willow in background

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Salix lasiolepis   Arroyo willow

John Rawlings, Sara Timby   2021-06-13

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford University; Tr 13 Bridge, S side Trail 13, 1 meter E of bridge
San Mateo County

Notes: largish DBH; short silky hairs abaxial lf blade, entire and enrolled. Mapped as willow 6


po195734

Salix lasiolepis   Arroyo willow

John Rawlings, Ken Hickman   2021-09-15

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford University; along PG&E right of way
San Mateo County

Notes: with Ribes divaricatum, Cornus sericea, Rubus ursinus, Typha


po198634

Salix lasiolepis   Arroyo willow

John Rawlings, Diane Renshaw, Ken Hickman, Bill Gomez   2021-11-16

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve; Trail 10
San Mateo County

Notes: with Poison oak, Garrya eliptica


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Salix lasiolepis   Arroyo willow

John Rawlings, Sara Timby   2021-07-09

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford University; Road E, north of Trail 13
San Mateo County

Notes: Small tree, atypical form with narrow leaf blade 1.0-1.5 cm wide; widespread. Pontania pacifica leaf galls present. Growing with Salix exigua var. hindsiana


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Salix lasiolepis   Arroyo willow

John Rawlings, Sara Timby   2021-12-04

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve; Trail 13 X Road E
San Mateo County

Notes: staminate tree, 2 stamens per floret


2 stamens per floret

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Salix lasiolepis   Arroyo willow

John Rawlings, Sara Timby   2021-06-13

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford U; S side of Trail 13 at ramp to Leonard's Bridge
San Mateo County

Notes: Entire inrolled leaf blade margin. Largest DBH observed on survey, Mapped as willow #13


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Salix lasiolepis   Arroyo willow

John Rawlings, Diane Renshaw, Sara Timby   2021-05-01

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford University
San Mateo County

Notes: Common and widespread shrub or small tree along creeks and in marshy areas, and taller trees in interior of the Willow woodland southwest of Searsville reservoir, where it is a component of the canopy with Red (S. laevigata) and Pacific willow (S. lasiandra), and scattered individuals and patches of Sandbar willow (S. exigua). Field identification by leaf gestalt: usually oblanceolate (widest between middle and leaf tip) with entire narrowly revolute margins, blades bifacial, i.e. dark to shiny green above, lighter below. Other characters examined when available: flowering before leafing out, pistillate capsules glabrous, staminate florets with two anthers, Pontania pacifica leaf galls. >>> Juvenile leaves can be short-silky abaxially for S. lasiolepis, which has suggested to some observers that such plants are Sitka willow (Salix sitchensis) because the two species have similar leaf shapes in our region.


leaf blades typically oblanceolate

micrograph, on left ARROYO WILLOW blade showing entire margin narrowly inrolled; on right blade with minutely serrate margin, a character of both Red and Pacific willow growing in our bioregion

2 stamens/floret; filaments connate below

Pontania pacifica, willow leaf apple gall sawfly

bud scale margins fused

abaxial (lower) side of blade

Freshwater marsh, Willow riparian woodland, south end of Searsville reservoir, with Salix exigua var. hindsiana, Salix lasiolepis, Salix lasiandra, Salix laevigata

Yellow spot Tiger moth

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Salix lasiolepis   Arroyo willow

John Rawlings, Sara Timby   2021-12-16

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Corte Madera Creek; Trail 12 at edge of riparian corridor south of Trail 10 intersection
San Mateo County

Notes: Dominant shrubby willow at edge of riparian corridor; budding while retaining many past season leaves


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Salix lasiolepis   Arroyo willow

John Rawlings, Diane Renshaw, Ken Hickman, Bill Gomez   2021-11-16

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve; Nolan Creek (Westridge Fork of Corte Madera Creek)
San Mateo County

Notes: with Aesculus californicus, Dirca occidentalis, Juncus hesperius, Physocarpus capitatus, Toxicodendron diversilobum


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Salix lasiolepis   Arroyo willow

John Rawlings, Diane Renshaw, Sara Timby   2021-04-15

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Mapache Fenceline
San Mateo County

Notes: fruiting; common, only willow observed; with Acer negundo


darker green foliage; lighter green is Acer negunda

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Salix sitchensis   Coulter willow

Teal Derrer, John Rawwlings   2023-10-20

Location: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford University; Low Flow Crossing San Francisquito Creek
San Mateo County

Notes: Just downstream of the bridge, at least one staminate tree, buried under some other fallen vegetation.. Flowering 2/2024 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/199971824