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|accepted_name=Salix lemmonii
|accepted_authority=Bebb
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Willows Calif.,
|place=88. 1879
|year=1879
}}
|common_names=Lemmon’s willow
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Salicaceae;Salix;Salix subg. Vetrix;Salix sect. Geyerianae;Salix lemmonii
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Salicaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Salix]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Salix subg. Vetrix]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Salix sect. Geyerianae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Salix lemmonii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 100, 107, 109, 136, 153, 155
|treatment_page=page 154
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>1.2–4 m, (sometimes forming clones by stem fragmentation). <b>Stems</b>: branches (sometimes highly brittle at base), yellow-brown or red-brown, not to sometimes strongly glaucous, (dull to slightly glossy), glabrous or puberulent at nodes; branchlets yellow-brown to red-brown, (weakly or strongly glaucous or not), puberulent, (buds alba-type or intermediate, scale inner membranaceous layer free, not separating from outer layer). <b>Leaves</b>: stipules absent or rudimentary on early ones, foliaceous on late ones, apex acute; petiole convex to flat adaxially, 5–16 mm, tomentose or velvety adaxially; largest medial blade (sometimes amphistomatous), lorate or very narrowly to narrowly elliptic, 44–110 × 6–22 mm, 3.4–9.9(–12) times as long as wide, base convex or cuneate, margins flat to slightly revolute, entire or shallowly serrulate, apex acuminate to acute, abaxial surface glaucous, sparsely short- or long-silky to glabrescent, hairs (white, also ferruginous), straight or wavy, adaxial slightly glossy, sparsely short-silky, (hairs also ferruginous); proximal blade margins entire or shallowly serrulate; juvenile blade reddish or yellowish green, densely long-silky abaxially, hairs white and ferruginous. <b>Catkins</b> flowering just before or, sometimes, as leaves emerge; staminate stout, (1.4–2.7–)16–28 × 9–17 mm, flowering branchlet 1–3 mm; pistillate loosely flowered, stout, (1.5–2.7–)19–44(–65 in fruit) × 10–18 mm, flowering branchlet 1–6 mm; floral bract brown or bicolor, 1.1–2.4 mm, apex rounded or convex, abaxially hairy, hairs straight. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: adaxial nectary narrowly oblong, oblong, or ovate, 0.3–0.9 mm; filaments distinct or connate less than 1/2 their lengths, glabrous or hairy on proximal 1/2 or basally; anthers yellow, ellipsoid, shortly cylindrical, or globose, 0.5–0.9 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: adaxial nectary oblong, narrowly oblong, or ovate, 0.4–1 mm; stipe 1.1–2.1 mm; ovary pyriform, beak sometimes slightly bulged below styles; ovules 12 per ovary; styles 0.3–1 mm; stigmas flat, abaxially non-papillate with rounded or pointed tip, 0.2–0.3–0.48 mm. <b>Capsules</b> 5–7 mm. <b>2n</b> = 76.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering early Mar-late Jun.
|habitat=Streams, lakeshores, wet meadows, springs, old burns in subalpine conifer forests, sandy, granite substrates
|elevation=1400-3500 m
|distribution=B.C.;Calif.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Oreg.;Wyo.
|discussion=<p>See 85. Salix drummondiana for comments on differences.</p><!--
--><p>Hybrids:</p><!--
--><p>Salix lemmonii forms natural hybrids with S. geyeriana.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Salix lemmonii
|author=
|authority=Bebb
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Salicaceae
|phenology=Flowering early Mar-late Jun.
|habitat=Streams, lakeshores, wet meadows, springs, old burns in subalpine conifer forests, sandy, granite substrates
|elevation=1400-3500 m
|distribution=B.C.;Calif.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Oreg.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Willows Calif.,
|publication year=1879
|special status=
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|genus=Salix
|subgenus=Salix subg. Vetrix
|section=Salix sect. Geyerianae
|species=Salix lemmonii
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