Salix S. pulchra - long brown persistent stipula, dead growth, narrowly linear leaves S. reticulata S. arctica - glabrescent leaves, broad, blunt + dark bracts w/long white hairs; leaf color lighter below, trailing branches; no long persistent stipula, not densely pubescent, but some reddish S. lanata - young twigs densely pubescent; capsules almost glabrous, leaves glabrous S. glauca - young twigs densely pubescent; villosus racem; bracts densely tomentose, leaves greyish pubescent on both sides. spp. subsp. is glabrous (leaves). S. rotundifolia - somewhat pubescent shoots, lateral veins raised on both sides bracts ovate, yellow brown - glabrous w/ fine long hairs. capsules glabrous S. phlebophylla - leaves somewhat pubescent when young, but glabrous when young leaves lanceolate. old skeletonized leaves prominent bracts black w/ long white hairs capsules pubescent S. alaxensis - young twigs woolly. leaves w/ dense whit felt beneath.