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|accepted_name=Salix lutea
|accepted_authority=Nuttall
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=N. Amer. Sylv.
|place=1: 63, plate 19. 1842
|year=1842
}}
|common_names=Yellow willow
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Salix cordata var. watsonii
|authority=Bebb
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Salix eriocephala var. watsonii
|authority=(Bebb) Dorn
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Salix lutea var. watsonii
|authority=(Bebb) Jepson
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Salix rigida var. watsonii
|authority=(Bebb) Cronquist
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Salicaceae;Salix;Salix subg. Vetrix;Salix sect. Cordatae;Salix lutea
|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. Cordatae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Salix lutea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 102, 103, 104, 112, 113
|treatment_page=page 123
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> 3–7 m, (sometimes forming clones by stem fragmentation). <b>Stems</b>: branches (sometimes ± brittle at base) yellow-gray, yellow-brown, or gray-brown, (sometimes weakly glaucous, with sparkling wax crystals), glabrous; branchlets red-brown or brownish, glabrous or pilose, (inner membranaceous bud-scale layer free, separating from outer layer). <b>Leaves</b>: stipules rudimentary or foliaceous on early ones, foliaceous on late ones, apex acute or rounded; petiole convex to flat, or shallowly grooved adaxially, 4–19 mm, pilose, velvety, or pubescent to glabrescent adaxially; largest medial blade (sometimes amphistomatous), lorate, narrowly elliptic, elliptic, lanceolate, or narrowly oblanceolate, 42–90 × 8–32 mm, 2.8–3.9–5.6 times as long as wide, base rounded, convex, or subcordate, margins flat, entire, serrulate, crenulate, or sinuate, apex acuminate to acute, abaxial surface glaucous, glabrous, pilose, or sparsely long-silky, hairs straight, adaxial dull or slightly glossy, glabrous, pilose, sparsely long-silky, especially midrib; proximal blade margins entire, serrulate, or crenulate; juvenile blade reddish or yellowish green, glabrous or sparsely to moderately densely long-silky throughout, hairs white. <b>Catkins</b> flowering as leaves emerge; staminate stout, slender, or subglobose, 10–45 × 6–12 mm, flowering branchlet 0.5–2 mm; pistillate loosely to densely flowered, stout or subglobose, 13.5–38 × 7–15 mm, flowering branchlet 0.5–7 mm; floral bract brown, tawny, or bicolor, 0.6–1.2 mm, apex acute or rounded, abaxially glabrous or sparsely hairy, hairs curly. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: adaxial nectary narrowly oblong, oblong, square, or flask-shaped, 0.4–0.9 mm; filaments distinct or connate less than 1/2 their lengths, glabrous; anthers yellow or purple turning yellow, (ellipsoid or globose), 0.4–0.8 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: adaxial nectary oblong, square, or ovate, 0.3–0.9 mm, shorter than stipe; stipe 0.9–3.8 mm; ovary pyriform or ovoid, glabrous, beak gradually tapering to styles; ovules 12–24 per ovary; styles 0.1–0.6 mm; stigmas flat, abaxially non-papillate with rounded tip, or 2 plump lobes, 0.14–0.2–0.3 mm. <b>Capsules</b> 3–5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 38.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–May.
|habitat=Banks of streams, meadows, hillsides, gullies, sandy-clay, sandy or rocky substrates
|elevation=600-3100 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Oreg.;Utah;Wyo.
|discussion=<p>The possible occurrence of <i>Salix lutea</i> in <i>Ginkgo</i> Petrified Forest Park, Washington, needs to be investigated.</p><!--
--><p>Hybrids:</p><!--
--><p><i>Salix lutea</i> forms natural hybrids with <i>S. arizonica</i>.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Salix lutea
|authority=Nuttall
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Salix cordata var. watsonii;Salix eriocephala var. watsonii;Salix lutea var. watsonii;Salix rigida var. watsonii
|basionyms=
|family=Salicaceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–May.
|habitat=Banks of streams, meadows, hillsides, gullies, sandy-clay, sandy or rocky substrates
|elevation=600-3100 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Oreg.;Utah;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=N. Amer. Sylv.
|publication year=1842
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V7/V7_128.xml
|genus=Salix
|subgenus=Salix subg. Vetrix
|section=Salix sect. Cordatae
|species=Salix lutea
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