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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Salix purpurea
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 1017. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Purple or basket willow;purple osier
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Salicaceae;Salix;Salix subg. Vetrix;Salix sect. Helix;Salix purpurea
|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. Helix]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Salix purpurea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 3, 94
|treatment_page=page 162
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>sometimes forming clones by stem fragmentation. <b>Stems</b>: branches (sometimes ± brittle at base), yellow-brown or olive-brown, not or weakly glaucous, glabrous; branchlets yellow-brown or olive-brown, violet tinged, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> (sometimes opposite or subopposite); stipules absent; petiole shallowly grooved adaxially, 2–7 mm, glabrous adaxially; largest medial blade lorate, narrowly oblong, narrowly oblanceolate, oblanceolate, 35–77 × 5–20 mm, base convex or rounded, margins strongly revolute, entire or serrulate, apex acute, acuminate, or convex, abaxial surface glaucous, glabrous, adaxial dull to sublustrous, glabrous; proximal blade margins entire; juvenile blade yellowish green or reddish, glabrous or sparsely pubescent abaxially, hairs white, sometimes also ferruginous. <b>Catkins</b> flowering before leaves emerge, (subopposite, recurved); staminate stout or subglobose, 25–33 × 6–10 mm, flowering branchlet 0 mm; pistillate densely flowered, slender or stout, 13.5–34.5(–35 in fruit) × 3–7 mm, flowering branchlet 0.5–3 mm; floral bract black or bicolor, 0.8–1.6 mm, apex rounded, abaxially hairy, hairs straight or wavy. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: adaxial nectary oblong, square, or ovate, 0.4–0.8 mm; filaments connate; anthers (distinct), purple turning yellow, ellipsoid or globose, 0.4–0.5 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: adaxial nectary ovate, 0.3–0.7 mm; ovary obturbinate, beak gradually tapering to styles; ovules 6 per ovary; styles 0.2–0.3 mm. <b>Capsules</b> 2.5–5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 38.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering mid Mar-mid May.
|habitat=Floodplains and shores, fens, swamps, alder thickets, sandy and limestone beaches, low dunes
|elevation=0-900 m
|distribution=N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Calif.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Ga.;Ill.;Iowa;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;N.H.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Oreg.;Pa.;R.I.;Utah;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.;Europe.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p><i>Salix purpurea</i> occurrence in Ohio is based on information from T. S. Cooperrider (pers. comm.).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Salix purpurea
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Salicaceae
|phenology=Flowering mid Mar-mid May.
|habitat=Floodplains and shores, fens, swamps, alder thickets, sandy and limestone beaches, low dunes
|elevation=0-900 m
|distribution=N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Calif.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Ga.;Ill.;Iowa;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;N.H.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Oreg.;Pa.;R.I.;Utah;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.;Europe.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V7/V7_192.xml
|genus=Salix
|subgenus=Salix subg. Vetrix
|section=Salix sect. Helix
|species=Salix purpurea
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