#hazel alder

[ribzinc]

Alnus serrulata (hazel alder) leafless in spring with catkins and cones

[vandaliatraveler]

Early March on the Mon River Trail.

Sunday was a gorgeous day for a bike ride, balmy and softly lit by the late Winter sun. The smooth alder (Alnus serrulata) is in bloom along the river - the catkins are incredibly beautiful to me. More whimsical are the pointy-capped flowers of the eastern skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus), which emerge from the muddy margins of local swamps in mid-February. At mile marker 17 (last photo from the bottom), I spotted my first bald eagle of the season - a mature, solitary bird who got away before I could get my camera positioned. I'll try again next weekend.

[faguscarolinensis]

Alnus serrulata / Hazel Alder at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[continent-of-wild-endeavor]

Alnus serrulata - Hazel alder

[musictherapy611]

Daily Tree: alnus serrulata

In English please: Hazel Alder, Smooth Alder

Grows: eastern continental US, from Maine to Florida and Texas

Conservation status: least concern

Wikipedia page: here

Photo 1: www . pinelandsnursery . com/2015/02/alnus-serrulata-smooth-alder.html

Photo 2: https : // upload . wikimedia . org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Alnus_serrulata_5.JPG

[fatchance]

Unopened hazel alder seed cones (Alnus serrulata), at the Deep Creek Locks turning basin, Chesapeake, Virginia. 

[vandaliatraveler]

The alder swamp at the West Virginia Botanic Garden this morning. The ice fell first, followed by snow. Every branch and leaf felt as brittle and fragile as fine crystal.

[puas-sketchbook]

Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh I got into dip pens