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Definition of Smooth alder
1. Noun. Common shrub of the eastern United States with smooth bark.
Group relationships: Alnus, Genus Alnus
Generic synonyms: Alder, Alder Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smooth Alder
Literary usage of Smooth alder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pennsylvania Trees by Joseph Simon Illick, Pennsylvania Dept. of Forestry (1914)
"DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS — The smooth alder, also known as Black Alder,
... This species can be distinguished from the smooth alder by Its leaf-blades ..."
2. The Forester's Manual: Or, The Forest Trees of Eastern North America by Ernest Thompson Seton (1912)
"ALDER OR smooth alder, TAG ALDER. (Alnus serrulata) This is the bush so well
known in thickets along the Northern streams. It is usually under 20 feet in ..."
3. The Book of Woodcraft and Indian Lore by Ernest Thompson Seton (1921)
"AIDER OR smooth alder, TAG ALDER. (Alnus serrulate,) This is the bush so well
known in thickets along the Northern streams. It is usually under 20 feet in ..."
4. Trees in Winter: Their Study, Planting, Care and Identification by Albert Francis Blakeslee, Chester Deacon Jarvis (1913)
"by position of the fertile catkins which in the smooth alder are erect and seem
to be terminal and in the Speckled Alder point downward and seem to be ..."
5. Trees in Winter: Their Study, Planting, Care and Identification by Albert Francis Blakeslee, Chester Deacon Jarvis (1913)
"COMPARISONS—The Speckled Alder is distinguished from its most common relative,
the smooth alder [Alnus rugosa (Du Roi) Spreng.], by position of the fertile ..."
6. THE BOOK OF WOODCRAFT by Ernest Thompson Seton (1921)
"ALDEE OR smooth alder, TAG ALDER. (Alnus serrulate) This is the bush so well
known in thickets along the Northern streams. It is usually under 20 feet in ..."
7. The Shrubs of Northeastern America by Charles Stedman Newhall (1893)
"... to any other in compounding gunpowder. Speckled Alder. Hoary Alder. A. incana,
Willd. Flowers, with much the same aspect as those of the smooth alder. ..."
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