Alaska willow resources

(Short URL for this page is is.gd/akwillow)

Taxonomic Treatments and Guides

• North America:
  • Argus’s treatment of Salix in the online Flora of North America.
  • Dorn, Robert. 2010. The Genus Salix in North America North of Mexico. PDF
• Alaska:
  • Argus, G. 1973. The Genus Salix in Alaska and the Yukon. Publications in Botany No. 2, National Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa. PDF
  • Argus, G. 2004. A Guide to the identification of Salix (willows) in Alaska, the Yukon Territory, and adjacent regions (workshop on willow identification). PDF (2011 version)
  • Viereck, L.A., and E.L. Little. 1972. Alaska Trees and Shrubs. U.S. Forest Service, Washington, D.C. Online
  • Collet, D.M. 2002. Willows of Southcentral Alaska. Kenai Watershed Forum. PDF
  • Collet, D.M. 2004. Willows of Interior Alaska. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. PDF
  • Salix in ‘e-Hulten’, a digitized version of Eric Hultén’s 1968 Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants, Stanford University Press.

Interactive keys

• George Argus’s DELTA interactive key for ‘Salix of the New World’
• The Flora of North America uses Semantic Mediawiki and can be searched for character states. On this page, enter, e.g., [[Taxon family::Salicaceae]] [[Distribution::Alaska]] [[Largest medial blade shape::obovate]] [[Blade pubescence::tomentose]] into ‘Condition’. To see all the states for a particular character, enter, e.g., [[Taxon family::Salicaceae]] [[Distribution::Alaska]] into ‘Condition’ and ?Largest medial blade shape into ‘Printout selection’.

Specimens and Observations

• Salix in ‘Alaska flora quick maps: comparative maps of specimens and observations in Alaska.
• Salix observations for Alaska in Arctos: data for ALA herbarium at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
• Salix observations for Alaska in iNaturalist.

Other

• Webb, C.O., J.G. Burleigh, and S.M. Ickert-Bond. 2022. Phylogenomics of willows (Salix L.) in Alaska. Poster presented at annual Botany Soc. America meeting, Anchorage. PDF
• Webb, C.O. 2024. Learning Alaska Willows. Presentation to the Alaska Native Plant Society, Anchorage, 2024-02-05. Excerpted slides: Alaska willow mini-guide, References