Alnus incana (L.) Moench

Alnus incana (L.) Moench

BETULACEAE

- Birch family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Alnus incana (L.) Moench

Nomencl. ref.: Methodus (Moench) 424 (1794)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Gray alder

English name: gray alder

English name: grey alder

French name: aulne blanchâtre

Italian name: Ontano bianco

Grown habit: Tree, Shrub
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Alnus incana (L.) Moench ssp. incana (L.) Moench [excluded]
2) Alnus incana (L.) Moench ssp. rugosa (Du Roi) R.T. Clausen
3) Alnus incana (L.) Moench ssp. tenuifolia (Nutt.) Breitung
4) Alnus incana (L.) Moench var. americana Regel
5) Alnus incana (L.) Moench var. occidentalis (Dippel) C.L. Hitchc.
6) Alnus incana (L.) Moench var. serrulata (Aiton) B. Boivin
7) Alnus incana (L.) Moench var. virescens S. Watson

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Hamamelididae
Order: Fagales
Family: Betulaceae
Genus: Alnus
Species:

Page counter: 1896 ( AVG: 221.42 / 290.147 )

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Alnus incana
Steve Hurst - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

Alnus incana
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Forni di Sopra, Giardino Botanico., UD, Friuli Venezia-Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Alnus incana
Picture modified from Bley, Franz - Botanisches Bilderbuch (1897/98) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Alnus incana
Credit: Photo by Silvano Radivo

Alnus incana
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Alnus incana
Credit: Photo by Silvano Radivo

Alnus incana
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Tambre d'Alpago, Giardino botanico alpino del Cansiglio 'Giangio Lorenzoni', BL, Veneto, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Alnus incana
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Monaco di Baviera, Orto Botanico di Monaco-Nymphenburg. , Monaco, Baviera, Germania, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Alnus incana
Credit: Photo by Silvano Radivo

Alnus incana
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

Alnus incana
Joe F. Duft - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. 1992. Western wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species. West Region, Sacramento. - Not copyrighted image

Alnus incana
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide to plant species. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. - Not copyrighted image

Alnus incana
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

Alnus incana
Jan Kops et al. - Flora Batava - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Alnus incana
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide to plant species. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. - Not copyrighted image

Alnus incana
Picture modified from Graebner, Paul - Taschenbuch zum Pflanzenbestimmen (1918) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Alnus incana
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 1: 613.

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, AZ, CA, CO, CT, IA, ID, IL, IN, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MT, ND, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY), CAN (AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS, NT, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT), FRA (SPM)

Distributional map for Alnus incana (L.) Moench
Map for Alnus incana (L.) Moench
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Alnus incana (L.) Moench ssp. rugosa (Du Roi) R.T. Clausen [336]
2) Alnus incana (L.) Moench ssp. tenuifolia (Nutt.) Breitung [323]
3) Alnus incana (L.) Moench var. americana Regel [179]
4) Alnus incana (L.) Moench var. serrulata (Aiton) B. Boivin [170]
5) Alnus japonica (Thunb.) Steud. [294]
6) Alnus maritima (Marsh.) Muhl. ex Nutt. var. metoporina (Furlow) E. Murray [175]
7) Alnus oregona Nutt. var. pinnatisecta Starker [163]
8) Alnus serrulata (Aiton) Willd. [466]
9) Alnus viridis (Chaix) DC. var. crispa (Aiton) House [184]
10) Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G. Don [2004]

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