Candida: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora and Flora of Alberta leading to this species. 

	erect shrubs from 2 dm tall to trees; NOT [dwarf shrubs, rarely exceeding 2 dm tall, trailing or forming compact mats]
	leaves lanceolate
	leaf margins entire
	leaf margins revolute
	leaves densely white-lanate beneath; NOT [leaves grey-lanate to villous-lanate or glabrescent beneath], NOT [leaves sericeous beneath with short, straight, appressed hairs], NOT [leaves essentially glabrous beneath], NOT [leaves green beneath, sometimes paler but non-glaucous]
	leaves dark green  and pubescent above
	leaves sparsely floccose above; NOT [indumentum more sparse and not floccose]
	midrib yellowish, prominent
	aments on leafy branchlets; NOT [aments sessile, leafless or with a few bract-like leaves at base]
	bracts of the capsules dark in color, brown to black; NOT [bracts of the capsules light in color, yellowish to light brownish or purplish]
	stipes 0-1.6 mm long, shorter than to twice nectary length; NOT [stipes 2-5 mm long, about 10 times as long as nectaries]
	pistils  and capsules sericeous to villous; NOT [pistils and capsules glabrous]
	styles red in life; NOT [styles greenish-yellow in life]

Salix: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora and Flora of Alberta leading to this genus. 

	mostly shrubs; NOT [trees]
	winter buds covered by a single scale; NOT [winter buds covered by several scales]
	catkins erect or divergent, rarely drooping; NOT [catkins soon drooping]
	bracts below flowers entire or merely toothed; NOT [bracts below flowers mostly lacerate]
	disk none; NOT [flowers with a broad or cup-shaped disk]
	stamens 2-10, often 2; NOT [stamens usually more than 10]

Salicaceae: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora  leading to this family. 

	shrubs or trees; NOT [herbs]
	flowers with only one floral ring, with sepals but not petals
	male flowers, at least, in catkins or aments; NOT [flowers not in catkins or aments]
	seeds each with a tuft of hairs; NOT [seeds without a tuft of hairs]