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|accepted_name=Salix uva-ursi
|accepted_authority=Pursh
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Amer. Sept.
|place=2: 610. 1813
|year=1813
}}
|common_names=Bearberry 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 ivigtutiana
|authority=Lundström
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Salix myrsinites var. parvifolia
|authority=Lange
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Salicaceae;Salix;Salix subg. Chamaetia;Salix sect. Myrtosalix;Salix uva-ursi
|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. Chamaetia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Salix sect. Myrtosalix]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Salix uva-ursi]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 60, 62, 68, 74
|treatment_page=page 73
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>0.01–0.05 m, (dwarf), forming clonal compact mats by layering. <b>Stems</b> prostrate, short-trailing; branches red-brown, gray-brown, or yellow-brown, glabrous; branchlets yellow-green or yellow-brown, glabrous or puberulent. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules (sometimes marcescent) absent, rudimentary, or foliaceous on early ones, foliaceous on late ones; petiole (shallowly to deeply grooved adaxially), 2–6.5 mm; largest medial blade (marcescent), amphistomatous or hypostomatous, ovate, broadly obovate, oblanceolate, or elliptic, 4–23 × 3.5–10 mm, 1.7–3.6 times as long as wide, base convex or cuneate, margins flat, serrulate or crenulate, apex convex, acuminate, acute, or retuse, abaxial surface glaucous, usually glabrous (rarely few hairs), adaxial slightly or highly glossy, usually glabrous (rarely a few hairs); proximal blade margins entire or serrate; juvenile blade glabrous, pilose, or puberulent abaxially. <b>Catkins</b>: staminate 9–19 × 5–8 mm, flowering branchlet 0.5–9 mm; pistillate densely flowered, slender to subglobose, 11–47(–55 in fruit) × 6–10 mm, flowering branchlet 2–10 mm; floral bract brown, black, tawny, light rose, or bicolor, 1.1–1.8 mm, apex rounded or acute, entire, abaxially sparsely hairy, hairs straight or wavy. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: abaxial nectary absent, adaxial nectary narrowly oblong or oblong, 0.4–0.9 mm; filaments distinct, glabrous; stamens usually 1, rarely 2; anthers ellipsoid or shortly cylindrical, 0.4–0.7 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: abaxial nectary absent, adaxial nectary narrowly oblong or oblong, 0.5–0.8 mm, shorter to longer than stipe; stipe 0.3–1.6 mm; ovary ovoid or pyriform, glabrous, beak gradually tapering to styles; ovules 4–9 per ovary; styles 0.4–1 mm; stigmas flat, abaxially non-papillate with rounded tip, or slenderly cylindrical, 0.1–0.23–0.4 mm. <b>Capsules</b> 3–5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 38.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering mid Jun-early Aug.
|habitat=Exposed, often dry or moist, calcareous, serpentine, dioritic, and granitic rocks, boulders, gravel, sand on beaches, outcrops, in snowbeds
|elevation=10-1200 m
|distribution=Greenland;St. Pierre and Miquelon;Nfld. and Labr.;N.S.;Nunavut;Que.;Maine;N.H.;N.Y.;Vt.
|discussion=<p>Hybrids:</p><!--
--><p><i>Salix uva-ursi</i> forms natural hybrids with <i>S. herbacea</i>.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Salix uva-ursi
|authority=Pursh
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Salix ivigtutiana;Salix myrsinites var. parvifolia
|basionyms=
|family=Salicaceae
|phenology=Flowering mid Jun-early Aug.
|habitat=Exposed, often dry or moist, calcareous, serpentine, dioritic, and granitic rocks, boulders, gravel, sand on beaches, outcrops, in snowbeds
|elevation=10-1200 m
|distribution=Greenland;St. Pierre and Miquelon;Nfld. and Labr.;N.S.;Nunavut;Que.;Maine;N.H.;N.Y.;Vt.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Amer. Sept.
|publication year=1813
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V7/V7_72.xml
|genus=Salix
|subgenus=Salix subg. Chamaetia
|section=Salix sect. Myrtosalix
|species=Salix uva-ursi
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