Salix phylicifolia L., narrow-leaved form (Finland, Lammi, Lamminjärvi, 1985). – Image: Harri Harmaja (scanned from dried specimen). – This kind of unusual plants, roughly half a metre high and often one-stemmed, occurred in a certain vegetation zone in an open oligo-mesotrophic mire. Accompanying species included Betula nana, Carex livida, Rhynchospora alba, Salix lapponum and Trichophorum alpinum.
Created August 23, 2004.