{{Short description|Species of plant}} {{Speciesbox |status = LC |status_system = IUCN3.1 |status_ref = <ref name=iucn>{{Cite iucn |title=''Salix lucida'' |author=Stritch, L. |name-list-style=amp |article-number= e.T126590173A126591085 |date=2018 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T126590173A126591085.en |access-date=11 April 2024}}</ref> |image = Salix lucida(01).jpg |image_caption = ''Salix lucida lucida'' |genus = Salix |species = lucida |authority = Muhl. |range_map = Salix lucida & lasiandra range map 1.png |range_map_caption = Natural range of ''Salix lucida''<br />subsp. ''lucida'' (green)<br />subsp. ''lasiandra'' (blue) }}
'''''Salix lucida''''', the '''shining willow''', '''Pacific willow''', '''red willow''', or '''whiplash willow''', is a species of willow native to northern and western North America, occurring in wetland habitats.<ref name=grin>{{GRIN | accessdate = 12 January 2018}}</ref><ref name=jeps>Jepson Flora: [http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?Salix+lucida ''Salix lucida'']</ref><ref name=bc>Plants of British Columbia: [http://linnet.geog.ubc.ca/Atlas/Atlas.aspx?sciname=Salix+lucida ''Salix lucida''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090618144311/http://linnet.geog.ubc.ca/Atlas/Atlas.aspx?sciname=Salix+lucida |date=2009-06-18 }}</ref> It is the largest willow found in British Columbia.<ref name=":02">{{Cite book |last1=Arno |first1=Stephen F. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qDD4DwAAQBAJ |title=Northwest Trees: Identifying & Understanding the Region's Native Trees |last2=Hammerly |first2=Ramona P. |publisher=Mountaineers Books |year=2020 |isbn=978-1-68051-329-5 |edition=field guide |location=Seattle |pages=192–193 |language=en |oclc=1141235469 |orig-date=1977}}</ref>
It is a deciduous large shrub or small tree growing to {{convert|4|–|15|m|ft}} tall.<ref name=":02" /> The shoots are greenish-brown to grey-brown. The leaves are narrow elliptic to lanceolate, {{Convert|4–17|cm|frac=2}} long and {{Convert|1-3.5|cm|abbr=on|frac=2}} broad, glossy dark green above, usually glaucous green below, hairless or thinly hairy. The flowers are yellow catkins {{Convert|1–9|cm|abbr=on|frac=2}} long, produced in late spring after the leaves emerge.<ref name=jeps/><ref name=bc/><ref name=npwrc>Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: [https://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/plants/vascplnt/species/sluc.htm ''Salix lucida''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070817183132/http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/plants/vascplnt/species/sluc.htm |date=2007-08-17 }}</ref>
The subspecies are:<ref name=grin/><ref name=jeps/><ref name=bc/> *''S. l. lucida{{Snd}}''shining willow, Newfoundland west to eastern Saskatchewan, and south to Maryland and South Dakota *''S. l. lasiandra'' (Benth.) E.Murray (syn. ''S. lasiandra'' Benth.){{Snd}}Pacific willow, Alaska east to Northwest Territory, and south to California and New Mexico. *''S. l. caudata'' (Nutt.) E.Murray{{Snd}}whiplash willow, interior western North America from eastern British Columbia south to eastern California and Nevada, included in ''S. l. lasiandra'' by some authors.
It is closely related to ''Salix pentandra'' of Europe and Asia.<ref name=bean4>Bean, W. J. (1980). ''Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles'' 8th ed., vol. 4. John Murray {{ISBN|0-7195-2428-8}}.</ref> right|thumb|229px|Male catkins of ''S. l. lasiandra''
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Commons-inline}} * {{Wikispecies-inline}} * {{CalPhotos|Salix|lucida}} * {{Calflora|Salix lucida}} * {{PFAF|Salix lucida}} * {{PFAF|Salix lucida lasiandra}}
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lucida Category:Flora of California Category:Flora of the Western United States Category:Natural history of the California chaparral and woodlands Category:Flora of the California desert regions Category:Flora of the Cascade Range Category:Flora of the Great Basin Category:Flora of the Klamath Mountains Category:Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States) Category:Natural history of the California Coast Ranges Category:Natural history of the Central Valley (California) Category:Natural history of the Channel Islands of California Category:Natural history of the Colorado Desert Category:Natural history of the Mojave Desert Category:Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges Category:Natural history of the San Francisco Bay Area Category:Natural history of the Santa Monica Mountains Category:Natural history of the Transverse Ranges Category:Taxa named by Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg Category:Flora without expected TNC conservation status