Taxon: Alnus maritima (Marshall) Muhl. ex Nutt.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Alnus maritima subsp. georgiensis (no accessions)
• Alnus maritima subsp. maritima (no accessions)
• Alnus maritima subsp. oklahomensis (1 accessions)

Common names:

• brook alder   (Source: Castanea 67:398.) – English   [Alnus maritima subsp. maritima]
  
• brook alder   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• Delmarva alder   (Source: Castanea 67:398.) – English   [Alnus maritima subsp. maritima]
  
• Georgia alder   (Source: Castanea 67:400.) – English   [Alnus maritima subsp. georgiensis]
  
• Oklahoma alder   (Source: Castanea 67:399.) – English   [Alnus maritima subsp. oklahomensis]
  
• seaside alder   (Source: Castanea 67:398.) – English   [Alnus maritima subsp. maritima]
  
• seaside alder   (Source: Castanea 67:399.) – English   [Alnus maritima subsp. oklahomensis]
  
• seaside alder   (Source: Castanea 67:400.) – English   [Alnus maritima subsp. georgiensis]
  
• seaside alder   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  

Economic importance:

• View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Oklahoma
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Delaware [s.e.], Georgia [Bartow Co.], Maryland [e.]

References:

• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. (Glea Cron)
• Govaerts, R. & D. G. Frodin. 1998. World checklist and bibliography of Fagales. (L Fagales)
• Graves, W. R. & J. A. Schrader. 2004. ‘September Sun’ seaside alder: an autumn-blooming shrub native to North America. HortScience 39:438–439.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541. (Trees US)
• Murai, S. 1964. Bull. Gov. Forest Sta. Bull. 171:41.
• Rehder, A. 1949. Bibliography of cultivated trees and shrubs. (Rehder)
• Schrader, J. A. & W. R. Graves. 2002. Infraspecific systematics of Alnus maritima (Betulaceae) from three widely disjunct provenances. Castanea 67:380–401.
• Schrader, J. A. & W. R. Graves. 2004. Systematics of Alnus maritima (seaside alder) resolved by ISSR polymorphisms and morphological characters. J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 129:231–236.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Alnus maritima.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Alnus maritima. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• Betula-Alnus maritima Marshall [≡ Alnus maritima subsp. maritima]
  

Check other databases for Alnus maritima (Marshall) Muhl. ex Nutt.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

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• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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