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Alnus hirsuta, photographed by an iNaturalist contributor
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#609 most planted

Alnus hirsuta

Manchurian alder · also Siberian alder

928
trees mapped
0.01%
of all named trees
10
cities
2.4 in
median trunk (6 cm, 928 measured)
2.8 yr
median age (42% have a planting date)

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Alnus hirsuta is a tree species found in temperate climates, with a native range extending from Southern Siberia to Japan. It is a member of the birch family, Betulaceae.

Where it grows

Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.

  1. Winnipeg · Canada
    409—2.4 in
  2. Edmonton · Canada
    3402.3 yr2.4 in
  3. Calgary · Canada
    115—2.0 in
  4. Lethbridge · Canada
    333.8 yr2.0 in
  5. Montreal · Canada
    111.3 yr2.0 in
  6. Vancouver · Canada
    8—12 in
  7. Boston · United States
    723 yr42 in
  8. Burlington · United States
    2—4.0 in
  9. Tokyo · Japan
    2—7.9 in
  10. Helsinki · Finland
    1—5.9 in

Native range

Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.

Boreal Forests/Taiga

  • Kamchatka taiga
  • Kamchatka-Kurile meadows and sparse forests
  • Sakhalin Island taiga

Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests

  • Northeast China Plain deciduous forests
  • Southern Korea evergreen forests

Flooded Grasslands & Savannas

  • Amur meadow steppe

Tundra

  • Kamchatka tundra

Other Alnus in the catalogue

18 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.

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