Alder Variety?

[GMan5465]

Need some help identifying some brush on the property. We have pasture land that I’m planning to turn into a combination of food plots, let go and let it grow, and tree plantings. It is sandy soil in central MN and these bushes are quite abundant. I believe they are some type of alder. They also make great screening. My first question is what is it? Based on what it is, how well do you think it would transplant? Thinking tree spade work. I have a quarter mile of road I need to screen. First time posting pictures, not sure why they are showing at the top.

 

[GMan5465]

Sorry, should have went into the name this plant section, not sure how to move it.

 

[GMan5465]

Also, here are a few views of the open pasture

 

[Native Hunter]

That's most likely Speckled Alder. Green Alder also grows in your state, but based on your pictures, I would say Speckled. It will transplant easily unless you move it to ground that it doesn't like.

 

[homerj1]

Looks more like hazelbush than alders to me. Alders like moisture, you don't generally find them in sandy pastures.

 

[Mozark]

Im not familiar with alder, but the catkins in the first picture made me think hazelnut.

 

[GMan5465]

Went out and dug around the base of the bush and found this, so looks to be American Hazelnut. Thanks for the suggestion homerj1 and Mozark. I then trekked down closer to the swamp edge and that looks more like speckled alder. My plan is to transplant the hazelnut to begin building my screening.

 

[ruskbucks]

Well that's a bonus find. I'm surprised you found some nut they are usually eaten up by everything early.

 

[homerj1]

Well that's a bonus find. I'm surprised you found some nut they are usually eaten up by everything early.

Agreed.

 

[SD51555]

I've got some hazelnut on my place, and a boat load of beaked hazel, and I have yet to find a nut unused.

 

[GMan5465]

I did have to dig in the middle of a few clumps to find it. I guess the old adage is true…even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while.