beautiful ornamental plants the summer garden young shrub american silverberry wolf willow

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Beautiful ornamental plants in the summer garden. young shrub American silverberry or Wolf-willow.

Family group of plants in the sunlight amid other vegetation and fragments of cultivated garden. Elaeagnus commutata (American silverberry or Wolf-willow), is a species of Elaeagnus native to western and boreal North America, from southern Alaska through British Columbia east to Quebec, south to Utah, and across the upper Midwestern United States to South Dakota and western Minnesota. It typically grows on dry to moist sandy and gravel soils in steppes, meadows or woodland edges. These plants are shrubs or small trees growing to 1Ã¢â¬â4 m tall. The leaves are broad lanceolate, 2Ã¢â¬â7 cm long, silvery on both sides with dense small white scales. The fragrant flowers are yellow, with a four-lobed corolla 6Ã¢â¬â14 mm long. The fruits are ovoid drupes 9Ã¢â¬â12 mm long, also covered in silvery scales. The fruit pulp is floury in texture, and surrounds the single seed. The species is cultivated as an ornamental plant for its silvery foliage