wild flowers in fife & kinross - Fife Coast and Countryside Trust

BETULACEAE
Betula pendula Silver Birch
Native, very common.
Betula pendula x pubescens (B. x aurata) Hybrid Birch
Intermediate forms frequently occur, and bushes are often difficult to assign to a
species, presumably hybrids.
Betula pubescens Downy Birch
Native, very common.
Alnus viridis Green Alder
Rarely planted.
Alnus glutinosa Common Alder
Native, very common, increasingly planted.
Alnus glutinosa x incana (A. x hybrida) Hybrid Alder
Long known at Tentsmuir, now appearing elsewhere.
Alnus incana Grey Alder
Long established at Tentsmuir, now increasingly planted in amenity sites, etc.
Alnus cordata Italian Alder
Occasionally planted, self-sowing in Methil.
Carpinus betulus Hornbeam
Infrequent in hedges and old estates.
Corylus avellana Hazel
As a native, common in the west, infrequent in the east; now widely planted in
hedges, parks and young woods.
CHENOPODIACEAE / PORTULACEAE
Chenopodium bonus-henricus Good King Henry
Infrequent, often near old buildings.