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Definition of Speckled alder
1. Noun. Common shrub of Canada and northeastern United States having shoots scattered with rust-colored down.
Group relationships: Alnus, Genus Alnus
Generic synonyms: Alder, Alder Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Speckled Alder
Literary usage of Speckled alder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"I. speckled alder, pg. 125. 2. Post Oak, pg. 136, lapping with No. I in e.
Mass, and Long Island, also Overcup Oak, pg. 138, also Basket Oak, pg. ..."
2. Trees in Winter: Their Study, Planting, Care and Identification by Albert Francis Blakeslee, Chester Deacon Jarvis (1913)
"by position of the fertile catkins which in the Smooth Alder are erect and seem
to be terminal and in the speckled alder point downward and seem to be ..."
3. Trees in Winter: Their Study, Planting, Care and Identification by Albert Francis Blakeslee, Chester Deacon Jarvis (1913)
"COMPARISONS—The speckled alder is distinguished from its most common relative,
the Smooth Alder [Alnus rugosa (Du Roi) Spreng.], by position of the fertile ..."
4. Our Trees, how to Know Them by Clarence Moores Weed (1918)
"THE speckled alder EVERY plant is a calendar of the year. Through long ages of
adaptation it has ... The speckled alder however, generally remains a shrub. ..."
5. Our Northern Shrubs and how to Identify Them: A Handbook for the Nature-lover by Harriet Louise Keeler (1903)
"... The speckled alder crowds as near to the water's edge as it is possible to
grow and then leans over as if hoping to go farther. ..."
6. A Spring Flora for High Schools by Henry Chandler Cowles, John Gaylord Coulter (1915)
"A. incana, speckled alder. Shrub or small tree, leaves broadly elliptical to ovate,
... Shrub or small speckled alder tree, leaves obovate, acute at base, ..."
7. Our Trees: A Popular Account of the Trees in the Streets and Gardens of by John Robinson (1891)
"Of our two native alders, the speckled alder (Alnus incana), is the more tree-like.
... The leaves of the speckled alder are more pointed and more coarsely ..."
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