|
|
 |
Alnus
rugosa |
 |
Speckled Alder |
 |
 |
  |
3 to 6 |
 |
Canada
south into North Dakota south to West Virginia and
Virginia -
United States |
|
 |
 |
Coarse textured small tree or shrub. |
 |
15 to 25 feet tall. |
 |
|
 |
|
 |
Alternate, simple, 2 to 4 1/2” long, ovate, acute or
obtuse, cuneate, with a row of 2 distinctly
different-sized teeth along the margin, dull dark green,
glabrous, and somewhat wrinkled on the upper surface,
paler and covered with rusty-red hairs below; petiole
short, stout, smooth, white dotted. |
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
 |
|
 |
Sometimes confused
with
A. serrulata but A rugosa has
distinctive 1/6 to 1/3 inch long, whitish
lenticels on the stems and trunk. |
|
