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Characteristics
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Salicaceae--The Willow Family
- Origin
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Native NC
- Plant Description
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Deciduous tree
- Coastal Ecology
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Salix caroliniana is the Coastal Plain willow, an Obligate Wetland species. Coastal plain willow is a common small to medium sized tree found in swamps, along ditches, at the edge of ponds and near the ocean at the edge of marshes and in depressions between dunes. The leaves are deciduous, long and slender, and with a silvery white, waxy coating on the underside. There are separate male and female trees, both bearing rather inconspicuous flowers in catkins in mid spring. The female flowers mature to an elongate cluster of small fruits which open, liberating seeds bearing white, silky, plume-like hairs which aid in long distance wind dispersal.
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