Fr: saule arctophile
IU: uKaujak, suputik
Provincial Status: LN
Range: Arctic-alpine NA; S to nLab., w/nwNfld.
[=Salix arctica Liebm. 1849, nom. illeg.hom., non Pall. 1788]
[=Salix arctica Pall. var. groenlandica Andersson]
[=Salix arctica Pall. subvar. leiocarpa Andersson]
[=Salix arctophila Cockerell ex A.Heller forma lejocarpa (Andersson) Fernald]
[=Salix arctophila Cockerell ex A.Heller subvar. lejocarpa Andersson]
[=Salix arctophila Cockerell ex A.Heller var. lejocarpa (Andersson) C.K.Schneid.]
[=Salix groenlandica (Andersson) Lundstr. 1877, nom. illeg. hom., non Heer 1868]
[=Salix groenlandica (Andersson) Lundstr. forma lejocarpa (Andersson) Lange]
[On the Island, Salix arctophila is known from limestone barrens in western Nfld. and the Great Northern Peninsula (Bouchard et al. 1991). An unnamed hybrid of Salix arctophila × S. uva-ursi is reported from Labrador by C.K. Schneider, 1921, (Scoggan 1978).]