A couple more specimens that I could use help with. Collected from moist Ash woods on islands in Lake of the Woods ( N. Minnesota, W. Ontario, E. Manitobat Etc). The salix keys to salix humilis, but many of the characters are off. I am using Chadde's Minnesota Flora. As is the case with other keys in this book, I have not been happy with the salix key. There are many errors, and there are not very many species described. I am not left with a lot of confidence in my diagnoses from this reference. Can anyone recommend a salix key for this part of the continent? The second image is of a vine that I am seeing everywhere. Most specimens are young adventitious growth, so I can't tell if it is woody, though I suspect it is. Does anyone have any guesses what it might be?
I don't think that it is Celastrus scandens. The rest of the Celastrus that I am seeing is already in flower. I am going to keep an eye on this one and see when it flowers, and I will post back here when (if) I find out what it is. Cheers!!
