NameThatPlant.net: Alnus maritima ssp. georgiensis

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fagales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Alnus maritima ssp. georgiensis FAMILY Betulaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Read about Alnus maritima from Linda Chafin and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Alnus maritima FAMILY Betulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Alnus maritima ssp. georgiensis

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America

Alnus maritima

COMMON NAME:
Georgia Alder

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image of Alnus maritima ssp. georgiensis, Georgia Alder

Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) (Sargent, 1905) mtna_i_258

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_alma7_001_lvd

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_alma7_004_lvd

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Alnus maritima ssp. georgiensis FAMILY Betulaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Alnus maritima FAMILY Betulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Alnus maritima ssp. georgiensis

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America
Alnus maritima

2789

Shrub
Perennial
Monoecious

Habitat: Standing water of Ridge-and-Valley spring run, per Weakley's Flora

Native to Georgia

Rare (endemic to a single site in Bartow County, GA)

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LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Summer
Staminate calyx 4-parted, pistillate calyx absent
Petals absent in pistillate flowers
4 stamens in staminate flowers
Inferior ovary
Unisexual

Flowers in catkins (staminate catkins elongate)

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall

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