| Alnus oregona Nutt. | |||
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| Family | Betulaceae — APG family: Betulaceae | ||
| Common name | red alder | ||
| Description | Tree up to 10 (rarely 15) meters tall, with stem up to 40 cm in diameter, some- times a shrub forming into dense thickets; bark smooth, grayish; leaves dark green and nearly glabrous above, paler and rusty-pubescent below, elliptic to ovate, with revolute margin, shallowly lobed, the lobes coarsely toothed and glandular-denti- culated; cones short-peduncled; nutlets narrowly winged. | ||
| Ecology | Wet places, river bottoms, along creeks. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.