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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Several dwarf willows grow near the snow line.

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

Silverhair saw a caterpillar cocoon fixed to a dwarf willow.

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

Even the dwarf willows cowered against the ground, their branches sprawled over the rock, dug in.

The only woody species, the dwarf willow, grows as a dense twisted mat crawling along the ground.

He'd gotten into a fight with his sister, Splayfoot, over a particularly juicy dwarf willow he'd found.

He prowled around the area until he found a stunted dwarf willow, clinging to the ground.

She found herself walking over dwarf willows, a flattened, ground-hugging forest that crunched under her feet.

Nothing, that is, save a solitary dwarf willow, a single splash of green-brown against the ancient crimson rock.

There are even dwarf willow trees, their branches clinging to the ground... And there is more.

Drier, more sloping and exposed fields carry grasses or dwarf willow up to only a few inches high.

Common plants include dwarf willow and arctic cotton, in addition to grasses and lichens.

It also contains a large collection of dwarf willow (Salix) and ongoing experimental plantings.

Patches of dwarf willow and birch grazed down by sheep reach only a foot-and-a-half in height.

And dwarf willows, which thrive in wet, soggy soil, and can be regularly cut back, are a great substitute.

Dwarf willows, birches and alders (Alnus ) form the emergent vegetation.

The community was similar to that found today at the boundary between tundra and taiga in Siberia: species included the dwarf birch and the least willow.

Salix herbacea (dwarf willow, least willow or snowbed willow) is a species of tiny creeping willow (family Salicaceae) adapted to survive in harsh arctic and subarctic environments.

Salix herbacea (dwarf willow, least willow or snowbed willow) is a species of tiny creeping willow (family Salicaceae) adapted to survive in harsh arctic and subarctic environments.

Other species which may occur are Alchemilla alpina and Salix herbacea.

The larvae feed on Taraxacum officinale, Vaccinium and Salix herbacea.

Examples of alpine species are glacier buttercup, Draba lactea and Salix herbacea.

Dwarf Willow (Salix herbacea)