Comments? Email	princerupert.com		What kind of Alder is this ‘late bloomer’? (Answer: a visitor from interior)
NATURE Sea, land, river ECONOMY Regional PLACE Books+ PEOPLES Community HOME	Alnus viridis ssp. sinuata Here is the Leaf ---Note how shiny plus the female ‘flower’ at the V Below is its leaf of the usual Alnus – which ‘flowered’ earlier in spring Note paler luster & how the margins rolled in -- diagnostic		Seen on 8^th of May --- in ‘flower’ There were only a few young trees among many ‘ordinary’ alders at Hays Creek and George Hills way roadside A Look at the BC e-flora shows why A viridis ‘flowered’ later – it is typically found to the interior of the province and a ‘different’ spring time Compare with ‘coastal’ Alnus rubra See Burke Museum for links to other sites Alnus rubra Alnus viridis ssp. sinuata (Sitka Alder)

Created by LG on MAY/11/2005

Last updated on Sunday, May 22, 2005