Salix melanopsis
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Malpighiales
Family:	Salicaceae
Genus:	Salix
Species:	S. melanopsis
Binomial name
Salix melanopsis Nutt.
Synonyms[2][3]
Salix bolanderiana Rowlee Salix exigua subsp. melanopsis (Nutt.) Cronquist Salix exigua var. gracilipes (C.R. Ball) Cronquist Salix exigua var. melanopsis (Nutt.) Cronquist Salix exigua var. tenerrima (L.F. Hend.) C.K. Schneid. Salix fluviatilis Nutt. Salix fluviatilis var. tenerrima (L.F. Hend.) Howell Salix longifolia var. tenerrima L.F. Hend. Salix melanopsis var. bolanderiana (Rowlee) C.K. Schneid. Salix melanopsis var. gracilipes C.R. Ball Salix melanopsis var. kronkheitii Kelso Salix melanopsis var. tenerrima (L.F. Hend.) C.R. Ball Salix parksiana C.R. Ball Salix sessilifolia var. vancouverensis Brayshaw Salix tenerrima (L.F. Hend.) A. Heller

Salix melanopsis is a plant species known by the common name dusky willow.^[4] It is native to western North America from British Columbia and Alberta to California and Colorado, where it grows in many types of moist and wet habitat, such as riverbanks and subalpine mountain meadows, on rocky and silty substrates.

Salix melanopsis is a shrub up to 4 meters tall, sometimes sprouting abundantly from its stem to form colonial thickets of clones. The pointed, oval, lance-shaped, or linear leaves may grow over 13 centimeters long and have smooth or spine-toothed edges. The inflorescence is a catkin of flowers up to 5 or 6 centimeters long.

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