Elaeagnus commutata

Taxobox
name = "Elaeagnus commutata"

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image_width = 240px
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Rosales
familia = Elaeagnaceae
genus = "Elaeagnus"
species = "E. commutata"
binomial = "Elaeagnus commutata"
binomial_authority = L.

"Elaeagnus commutata" (American Silverberry or Wolf-willow), is a species of "Elaeagnus" native to western North America, from southern Alaska through British Columbia east to Manitoba, and south to Utah and across the upper Midwestern Unites States to South Dakota and western Minnesota.Germplasm Resources Information Network: [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?70241 "Elaeagnus commutata"] ] It typically grows on dry to moist sandy and gravel soils in steppes, meadows or woodland edges.Plants of British Columbia: [http://linnet.geog.ubc.ca/Atlas/Atlas.aspx?sciname=Elaeagnus+commutata "Elaeagnus commutata"] ]

It is a shrub or small tree growing to 1–4 m tall. The leaves are broad lanceolate, 2-7 cm long, silvery on both sides with dense small white scales. The flowers are yellow, with a four-lobed corolla 6-14 mm long; they are fragrant. The fruit is an ovoid drupe 9–12 mm long, also covered in silvery scales. The fruit pulp is floury in texture, and surrounds the single seed.

It is cultivated as an ornamental plant for its silvery foliage.

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ee also

*Psychedelic plants