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yewleaf willow
Salix taxifolia
Salix taxifolia, the yewleaf or yew-leaf willow, is a species of willow native to all of southern Mexico, also Pacific Coast regions, north to Sinaloa, and in the south Pacific Coast of Mexico into central Guatemala. Scattered populations are also reported from northern Mexico and from the US states of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.
It is a large shrub or tree with narrow linear leaves similar to those of a yew. Its range is similar to that of the Bonpland willow, S. bonplandiana.
From the article Salix taxifolia on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Range & habitat
The primary range of yewleaf willow is southern Mexico south of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt and the Pacific coast region, then into Pacific coast–central Guatemala. Besides the core range area, (of the northern Sierra Madre Occidentals) in Arizona–New Mexico and northeast Sonora, two larger disjunct regions occur in west Texas and central Chihuahua. South of Chihuahua, Chihuahua it is found at the Conchos River, and west of the city, a large area at the lake region. It also occurs in scattered, isolated locales of Durango, Sinaloa, and in the northeast at Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas: also extreme southern Baja California Sur, (west of Sinaloa-Durango across the Gulf of California). Besides parts of the Sierra Madre Occidental, locales occur in the southern Sierra Madre Oriental cordillera, but also small isolated locales as far northeast as the northeast states. Its range is similar to that of the Bonpland willow, Salix bonplandiana, except S. bonplandiana covers almost the entire north-south extent of the Sierra Madre Occidentals; yewleaf is more intermittent in that range.
Similar ranges of S. taxifolia, S. bonplandiana. Both S. taxifolia, and S. bonpandiana have identical ranges: both species range from the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt southward, on an imaginary centerline into central Guatemala. …
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 168364.