Salix eastwoodiae
Sierra willow, Sierra Willow
Family: Salicaceae · Type: shrub · Native
Sierra willow is a California native shrub found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, high Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada, and White and Inyo Mountains in alpine and subalpine meadows, along streams, and in talus slopes at elevations of 1,600 to 3,800 meters. Flowering from May to July, this shrub produces delicate catkins with yellow or reddish flowers. Growing to less than 4 meters tall with yellow-green or red-brown twigs that become shaggy-hairy when young and gradually turn glabrous with age. Its leaves are narrowly oblong to elliptic, 23 to 99 millimeters long, with densely woolly undersides and margins that range from entire to finely serrated. The shrub features distinctive leaf-like stipules and can form dense clusters in high-elevation mountain habitats.
Habitat: Alpine, subalpine meadows, streams, talus
Bloom period: May-Jul
Elevation: 1600-3800 m
Bioregions: KR, NCoR, CaRH, SNH, MP, W&I
California counties: Tulare, Tuolumne, Modoc, Inyo, Mariposa, Fresno, Plumas, Siskiyou, Nevada, Mono, El Dorado, Placer, Butte, Humboldt, Sierra, Tehama, Lassen, Amador, Alpine, Madera, Shasta, Trinity, Napa, Del Norte
Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.