Alnus maritima(Marshall) Muhl. ex Nutt.

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WFO wfo-0000946711 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Alnus maritima, photographed by Tom Field
fig. a Tom Field, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-03-13 / obs. 115779486
Alnus maritima, photographed by Judy Gallagher
fig. b Judy Gallagher, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 61588292
Alnus maritima, photographed by Tom Field
fig. c Tom Field, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115779517
Alnus maritima, photographed by Tom Field
fig. d Tom Field, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115779551

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Alnus maritima is native: Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Oklahoma GeorgiaMarylandOklahoma Delaware
Native distribution of Alnus maritima, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Delaware DEL NORTHERN AMERICA
Georgia GEO
Maryland MRY
Oklahoma OKL

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 7 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Alnus maritima subsp. georgiensis J.A.Schrad. & W.R.Graves
  • Alnus maritima subsp. metoporina (Furlow) A.E.Murray
  • Alnus maritima subsp. oklahomensis J.A.Schrad. & W.R.Graves
  • Alnus maritima var. metoporina (Furlow) A.E.Murray
  • Alnus metoporina Furlow
  • Alnus oblongata var. oblonga Regel
  • Betula-alnus maritima Marshall

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.