Grey Alder
Alnus incana (L.) Moench
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 18 m
- wide
- 5.0 m
Betulaceae
Formerly Betula incana
When it flowers
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Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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PeopleNo safety information yet
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to W. Siberia and Türkiye, N. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Height
- 18 mRead from Plants for a Future and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Plants for a Future 18–18 m; Wikipedia 15–20 m
- Spread
- 5.0 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -45.6 °C (USDA zone 2a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: water, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.5
- 3D model: Alnus incana (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.