Salix amygdaloides Andersson

Trees, 4-20 m. Stems: branches flexible to ± brittle at base, yellow to gray-brown, glabrous; branchlets yellow-brown, gray-brown, or red-brown, glabrous. Leaves: stipules absent or rudimentary on early ones, foliaceous or rudimentary on late ones, apex rounded; petiole (margins covering groove, not glandular or with spherical glands distally), 7-21 mm, glabrous or puberulent adaxially; largest medial blade (sometimes amphistomatous), very narrowly elliptic, elliptic, lanceolate, or lorate, 55-130 × 24-37 mm, 2.8-6 times as long as wide, base convex, cuneate, or cordate, margins serrulate, apex acuminate to caudate, abaxial surface glaucous, glabrous, adaxial dull, glabrous or sparsely pubescent along midrib; proximal blade margins entire or shallowly serrulate; juvenile blade glabrous or pubescent abaxially, hairs white and/or ferruginous. Catkins: staminate 23-80 × 5-12 mm, flowering branchlet 3-28 mm; pistillate 41-110(-127 in fruit) × 8-16 mm, flowering branchlet 17-35 mm; floral bract 1.5-2.8 mm, apex acute to rounded, entire or toothed, abaxially sparsely to moderately densely hairy proximally, hairs wavy; pistillate bract deciduous after flowering. Staminate flowers: abaxial nectary 0.2-0.7 mm, adaxial nectary narrowly oblong to square, 0.3-0.8 mm, nectaries distinct; stamens 3-7; filaments hairy on proximal 1/2 or basally; anthers 0.5-0.6 mm. Pistillate flowers: adaxial nectary square, 0.1-0.6 mm; stipe 1.4-3.2 mm; ovary pyriform, beak slightly bulged below styles; ovules 16-18 per ovary; styles 0.2-0.4 mm; stigmas 0.24-0.31-0.4 mm. Capsules 3-7 mm. 2n = 38.

Along muddy streambanks and in low wet woods bordering rivers. Moist to mesic floodplains, shores of lakes on sandy, silty, or gravelly substrates, marshes, wet sand dune slacks; at elevations up to 2,400 metres.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.