Hazel Alder is a multi-stemmed shrub of stream banks and wetland margins in the southeastern United States, often growing in thickets in seasonally flooded soils. It is a nitrogen-fixer that stabilizes eroding streambanks and produces catkins in late winter that are one of the earliest pollen sources for native bees. American woodcock probe for earthworms beneath alder stands.
Habitat
Stream banks and wetland margins in the eastern and southeastern United States
Diet
Catkins provide early pollen for native bees; habitat for American woodcock
How common
Common
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