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Alnus rhombifolia, the white alder, is an alder tree native to western North America, from British Columbia and Washington east to western Montana, southeast to the Sierra Nevada, and south through the Peninsular Ranges and Colorado Desert oases in Southern California. It occurs in riparian zone habitats at an altitudes range of . While not reported in northern Baja California, it has been predicted on the basis of its climatic adaptation to occur there also. "Alnus rhombifolia" is primarily found in the chaparral and woodlands, montane, and temperate forests ecoregions.
Description.
"Alnus rhombifolia" is a medium-sized deciduous tree growing to (rarely to ) tall, with pale gray bark, smooth on young trees, becoming scaly on old trees. The leaves are alternate, rhombic to narrow elliptic, long and broad, with a finely serrated margin and a rounded to acute apex; they are thinly hairy below.
The flowers are produced in catkins. The male catkins are pendulous, slender, long, yellowish, and produced in clusters of two to seven; pollination is in early spring, before the leaves emerge. The female catkins are ovoid, when mature in autumn long and broad, on a stem, superficially resembling a small conifer cone. The small winged seeds disperse through the winter, leaving the old woody, blackish 'cones' on the tree for up to a year after.
The white alder is closely related to the red alder ("Alnus rubra"), differing in the leaf margins being flat, not curled under. Like other alders, it is able to fix nitrogen, and tolerates infertile soils.
Medicinal use.
Some Plateau Indian tribes use white alder for female health treatment needs.
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