Green Alder Sticker

$2.50

Green alder has a natural distribution that is circumpolar, meaning that it grows across the entire globe in the northern half of the northern hemisphere. Depending on who you ask, there are up to six subspecies. Botanically—as you might have guess—this is not technically a cone, but rather a catkin, which is a tight grouping of many unisexual flowers. The woody “cones” serve the same function as a true conifer cone, shedding what are in fact small nutlets from each “cone scale”.

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Illustrated by Lianne Pflug

Green alder has a natural distribution that is circumpolar, meaning that it grows across the entire globe in the northern half of the northern hemisphere. Depending on who you ask, there are up to six subspecies. Botanically—as you might have guess—this is not technically a cone, but rather a catkin, which is a tight grouping of many unisexual flowers. The woody “cones” serve the same function as a true conifer cone, shedding what are in fact small nutlets from each “cone scale”.