Salix bebbiana

Bebb's willow

Family: Salicaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 2B.3

Bebb's willow is a California native shrub found in northern Modoc Plateau regions around Lower Klamath Lake and Goose Lake in streamsides and lakeshores at elevations of 1,000 to 1,400 meters. Flowering from April to June, this willow produces small flowers with tan bracts on leafy shoots. Growing as a small tree or shrub up to 10 meters tall with widely spreading yellow-green or red-brown twigs that are soft and shaggy-hairy, it develops a distinctive growth form. Its leaves are elliptic to narrowly obovate, 20 to 87 millimeters long, with a convex to wedge-shaped base and margins that are entire to slightly crenate, featuring long silky hairs on the veins. In mature specimens, the leaves become wavy with a tomentose or silky underside, giving the plant a soft, textured appearance.

Habitat: Streamsides, lakeshores

Bloom period: Apr-Jun

Elevation: 1000-1400 m

Bioregions: n MP (Lower Klamath Lake, Siskiyou Co. Goose Lake, Modoc Co.)

California counties: Modoc, Siskiyou

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