Index / Search / Alnus rhombifolia
§1 Plant
Alnus rhombifolia Nutt.
vernacular white alder — species · Betulaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Betulaceae Gray
- Genus
- Alnus
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 94 counties across 5 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- None
- Hedging
- Medium
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -24 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 200 min.
- Precipitation
- 20–125 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.8–7.5
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Multiple Stem
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 65 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 50 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Green
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- Low
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Fall
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Rapid
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 687,000
- Propagation
- seed, cuttings, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- Yes
- Fuelwood
- Medium
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 94 counties across 5 states/territories.
California view state ↗ 51 N ▾
- Alameda 06001
- Amador 06005
- Butte 06007
- Calaveras 06009
- Colusa 06011
- Contra Costa 06013
- Del Norte 06015
- El Dorado 06017
- Fresno 06019
- Glenn 06021
- Humboldt 06023
- Kern 06029
- Lake 06033
- Lassen 06035
- Los Angeles 06037
- Madera 06039
- Marin 06041
- Mariposa 06043
- Mendocino 06045
- Merced 06047
- Modoc 06049
- Monterey 06053
- Napa 06055
- Nevada 06057
- Orange 06059
- Placer 06061
- Plumas 06063
- Riverside 06065
- Sacramento 06067
- San Benito 06069
- San Bernardino 06071
- San Diego 06073
- San Joaquin 06077
- San Luis Obispo 06079
- San Mateo 06081
- Santa Barbara 06083
- Santa Clara 06085
- Santa Cruz 06087
- Shasta 06089
- Sierra 06091
- Siskiyou 06093
- Solano 06095
- Sonoma 06097
- Stanislaus 06099
- Tehama 06103
- Trinity 06105
- Tulare 06107
- Tuolumne 06109
- Ventura 06111
- Yolo 06113
- Yuba 06115
Idaho view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Benton 41003
- Clatsop 41007
- Columbia 41009
- Crook 41013
- Curry 41015
- Douglas 41019
- Gilliam 41021
- Grant 41023
- Hood River 41027
- Jackson 41029
- Jefferson 41031
- Josephine 41033
- Klamath 41035
- Lane 41039
- Malheur 41045
- Marion 41047
- Morrow 41049
- Multnomah 41051
- Sherman 41055
- Umatilla 41059
- Wallowa 41063
- Wasco 41065
- Washington 41067
- Wheeler 41069
- Yamhill 41071
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ALRH2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2876207 ↗Record version
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