Leaves

• oval, 4-8 cm. in length
• rounded or heart-shaped at the base with fine sharp-toothed
• surface is dark green, hairless and wrinkled above, light green and shiny beneath
• main veins beneath are brown and usually have hairs
• there are 7-8 veins on each leaf and cross veins do not join

Fruit

• small, winged nutlets in oval, woody ‘cones’
• 1-2 cm in length
• nutlets mature in the fall but the ‘cones’ often persist for a year or more

Bark

• gray or reddish-gray
• not so conspicuously marked with lenticels as the Speckled Alder
• becomes scaly with age

General

• commonly grow up to 3 m in height
• found along roadsides, stream banks, pond fringes, in wet thickets and swamps, on rocky slopes and in other dry areas
• occur throughout Newfoundland and Labrador