NOUN
- widely distributed boreal shrubby willow with partially underground creeping stems and bright green glossy leaves
How To Use dwarf willow In A Sentence
- Wet meadows have abundant grasses, sedges, and rushes, while low-growing shrubs include black crowberry, mountain cranberry, shrubby cinquefoil, and three dwarf willows.
- Around us is a patchwork of eskers sand and gravel dunes deposited by ancient rivers during the last ice age, hummocks, bogs and muskeg. Stands of dwarf willow thicken the banks of the river in places, and trees scattered singly or in small groves cover some small hill or bluff in no discernible pattern. M. Sanjayan: Thelon Expedition: The Country
- The hound fared on up the dale to where the water was bridged by a great fallen stone, and so over it and up a steep bent on the further side, on to a marvellously rough mountain-neck, whiles mere black sand cumbered with scattered rocks and stones, whiles beset with mires grown over with the cottony mire-grass; here and there a little scanty grass growing; otherwhere nought but dwarf willow ever dying ever growing, mingled with moss or red-blossomed sengreen; and all blending together into mere desolation. The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale
- Dwarf willow is the only "tree" species up there and it grows along the ground between the rocks. jjjp Flags