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Definition of Seaside alder
1. Noun. Shrub or small tree of southeastern United States having soft light brown wood.
Group relationships: Alnus, Genus Alnus
Generic synonyms: Alder, Alder Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seaside Alder
Literary usage of Seaside alder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"(A. maritima) seaside alder AA. Flowers before leaves in winter or early spring
... seaside alder (Alnus maritima, Nutt.)—A round-topped tree 15 to 30 feet, ..."
2. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"(A. maritima) seaside alder AA. Flowers before leaves in winter or early spring
... seaside alder (Alnus maritima, Nutt.)—A round-topped tree 15 to 30 feet, ..."
3. Check List of the Forest Trees of the United States: Their Names and Ranges by George Bishop Sudworth (1898)
"seaside alder. RANGE.—Southern part of the peninsula of Delaware and Maryland (Nanticoke
River near Seaford, Del.; Wicomico River near Salisbury, Md.); ..."
4. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"seaside alder A late flowering shrub or small tree Alnus 10-30 feet high, the
branchlets light brown maritime, ..."
5. Trees of the Northern United States: Their Study, Description and by Austin Craig Apgar (1892)
"(seaside alder.) Smooth; leaves oblong-ovate to obovate, with a tapering base,
sharply serrulate ; petiole slender; color bright green, somewhat rusty ..."
6. Ornamental Shrubs of the United States (hardy, Cultivated) by Austin Craig Apgar (1910)
"seaside alder. « bracts form a fringe-like border generally hiding the nut ; the
EUROPEAN FILBERT (564) — Cory- lus Avellana — grows much taller, ..."
7. The Woods of the United States by Charles Sprague Sargent, American Museum of Natural History (1885)
"seaside alder. Southern Delaware and eastern Maryland, near the coast; valley of
the Red River, Indian Territory, in about longitude 96° 30' W.; ..."
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