Mountain Alder
Leaves
- oval, 4-8 cm. in length
- rounded or heart-shaped at the base with fine
sharp-toothed
- surface is dark green, hairless and wrinkled above,
light green and shiny beneath
- main veins beneath are brown and usually have hairs
- there are 7-8 veins on each leaf and cross veins do not
join
Fruit
- small, winged nutlets in oval, woody ‘cones’
- 1-2 cm in length
- nutlets mature in the fall but the ‘cones’ often persist
for a year or more
Bark
- gray or reddish-gray
- not so conspicuously marked with lenticels as the
Speckled Alder
- becomes scaly with age
General
- commonly grow up to 3 m in height
- found along roadsides, stream banks, pond fringes, in
wet thickets and swamps, onrocky slopes and in other dry
areas
- occur throughout Newfoundland and Labrador