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Speckled Alder (Swamp Alder, Mountain Alder) (Alnus incana ssp. rugosa) (Synonyms: Alnus rugosa, Alnus rugosa var. americana)


Identification Food & Medicinal Uses Web Page Links Online Videos References


Identification

KingdomPlantae – Plants
SubkingdomTracheobionta – Vascular plants
SuperdivisionSpermatophyta – Seed plants
DivisionMagnoliophyta – Flowering plants
ClassMagnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
SubclassHamamelididae
OrderFagales
FamilyBetulaceae – Birch family
GenusAlnus Mill. – alder
SpeciesAlnus incana (L.) Moench – gray alder
SubspeciesAlnus incana (L.) Moench ssp. rugosa (Du Roi) R.T. Clausen – speckled alder


Food & Medicinal Uses



Web Page Links



Online Videos



References

1
Native American Ethnobotany

by Daniel E. Moerman
Timber Press, c1998
ISBN: 0881924539
2
Medicinal and Other Uses of North American Plants: A Historical Survey with Special Reference to Eastern Indian Tribes

by Charlotte Erichsen-Brown
Dover Publications, c1989
ISBN: 048625951X
3 Peterson Field Guide for Edible Wild Plants of Eastern/Central North America
by Lee Allen Peterson
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (c1999)
ISBN: 039592622X













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