dwarf willow
Salix herbacea

As you climb in altitude, the dwarf willow and other lichens become more prominent, forming a second level.

Little if any vegetation but dwarf willow grows in this region.

The few trees that do grow on the tundra are dwarf willows and birch.

Plants along the shoreline include dwarf willow and alder, plus 125 different wild flowers.

But now he saw grass, what looked like saxifrage, even a stand of dwarf willow clinging to the rock.

In spring it starts feeding on the leaves of the dwarf willow.

And down by the river bank a clump of dwarf willows burst into bud.

Today, standing only a few feet from them, she felt like a dwarf willow in a forest of mighty oaks.

The dwarf willow is one of the smallest woody plants in the world.

We have found a dwarf willow and the others are stripping it like wolf cubs, leaving none for me.