Fr: saule arctique
IU: uKaujak, uppigak, suputik
Provincial Status: LN
Range: Arctic-alpine circumpolar; S to n-most Lab., wNfld.; bas.
[=Salix anglorum Cham.]
[=Salix anglorum Cham. var. antiplasta C.K.Schneid.]
[=Salix anglorum Cham. var. araioclada C.K.Schneid.]
[=Salix anglorum Cham. var. kophophylla C.K.Schneid. (Type: Blomidon Mt., wNfld.)]
[=Salix arctica R.Br. ex Richardson 1823, nom. illeg. hom., non Pall. 1788]
[=Salix arctica Pall. subsp. crassijulis (Trautv.) A.K.Skvortsov]
[=Salix arctica Pall. subsp. torulosa (Trautv.) Hultén]
[=Salix arctica Pall. var. antiplasta (C.K.Schneid.) Fernald]
[=Salix arctica Pall. var. araioclada (C.K.Schneid.) Raup]
[=Salix arctica Pall. var. brownei Andersson]
[=Salix arctica Pall. var. kophophylla (C.K.Schneid.) Polunin]
[=Salix arctica Pall. var. pallasii Kurtz]
[=Salix brownei (Andersson) Lundstr.]
[=Salix brownei (Andersson) Bebb 1889, nom. illeg. isonym., non (Andersson) Lundstr. 1877]
[=Salix crassijulis Trautv.]
[=Salix diplodictya Trautv.]
[=Salix ehlei Flod.]
[=Salix pallasii Andersson, nom. illeg.]
[In Nfld., Salix arctica is found on alpine serpentine talus slopes (Bouchard et al. 1991). The report of an unnamed hybrid of Salix arctic var. kophophylla × S. brachycarpa from Ungava-Labrador (Scoggan 1978) is probably erroneous, since S. brachycarpa is not known from Lab.]