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MOUNTAIN ALDER
alnus tenuifolia

UNIQUE FEATURES:

  • The Mountain Alder is a small tree or coarse shrub, often occurring in clumps
  • Parts of the stem is sometimes food for deer and hares

LOCATION:

  • The Mountain Alder grows throughout BC, east of the Coast and Cascade mountains
  • The Mountain Alder is found in mid to subalpine elevations
  • The Mountain Alder prefers wet, nutrient rich areas such as lake, pond, swamp or stream edges

SIZE:

  • The Mountain Alder can grow 2 to 10 metres in height
  • tree or shrub

FRUIT:

  • seed cones on a short stalk; the seeds or nutlets have very narrow wings

FLOWERS:

  • long (3 to 4 cm), drooping catkins (male)
  • woody, brown, short cones (female)
  • produced in the fall and stay on the tree until spring; see them before the leaves

LEAVES

  • thin, oval-shaped
  • rounded or blunt tip
  • shallow, wavy lobed and double toothed
  • green with a pale and hairy underside
  • remain green through most of the fall like most alders

BARK:

  • yellowish-brown

WOOD CHARACTERISTICS:

  • very hard

USES:

  • traditional - wood: bows, snowshoes, smoking and drying salmon and meat, eating utensil and dishes, source of dye and hide tanning substance; bark: dye, fish nets, medicine to stop bleeding


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