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Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily
HOME > Plant list (植物リスト) > Salicaceae (ヤナギ科) > Salix polaris
Chishimamameyanagi (チシママメヤナギ, 千島豆柳), polar willow
Lifeform: creeping, dwarf shrbu < 10 m tall
Distribution: circumpolar in the Northern Hemisphere
Stem: producing underground branches
Habitat: arctic tundra
Seed dispersal (種子散布): wind
Synonyms:
Salix pseudopolaris Flod., discarded
Salix polaris Wahlenb. ssp. pseudopolaris (Flod.) Hultén, discarded
Fossil: recorded from the Pleistocene ice ages in Europe
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[1-3] at Mile Post 404 along Dalton Highway, interior Alaska, on August 1 2014.