Index / Search / Cercocarpus montanus
§1 Plant
Cercocarpus montanus Raf.
vernacular alderleaf mountain mahogany — species · Rosaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Rosaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Cercocarpus
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 196 counties across 13 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- Medium
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -41 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 90 min.
- Precipitation
- 9–80 in/yr
- pH range
- 6–8
- Root depth
- 20 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Multiple Stem
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 15 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 15 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- Low
- Toxicity
- Moderate
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 47,406
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- High
- Graze palatability
- Medium
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Medium
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 196 counties across 13 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 15 N ▾
California view state ↗ 47 N ▾
- Alameda 06001
- Alpine 06003
- Amador 06005
- Butte 06007
- Calaveras 06009
- Colusa 06011
- Contra Costa 06013
- Del Norte 06015
- El Dorado 06017
- Fresno 06019
- Glenn 06021
- Humboldt 06023
- Kern 06029
- Lake 06033
- Lassen 06035
- Los Angeles 06037
- Madera 06039
- Marin 06041
- Mariposa 06043
- Mendocino 06045
- Modoc 06049
- Mono 06051
- Monterey 06053
- Napa 06055
- Nevada 06057
- Orange 06059
- Placer 06061
- Plumas 06063
- Riverside 06065
- San Benito 06069
- San Bernardino 06071
- San Diego 06073
- San Luis Obispo 06079
- San Mateo 06081
- Santa Barbara 06083
- Santa Clara 06085
- Santa Cruz 06087
- Shasta 06089
- Siskiyou 06093
- Solano 06095
- Sonoma 06097
- Tehama 06103
- Trinity 06105
- Tulare 06107
- Tuolumne 06109
- Ventura 06111
- Yolo 06113
Colorado view state ↗ 34 N ▾
- Alamosa 08003
- Archuleta 08007
- Baca 08009
- Boulder 08013
- Chaffee 08015
- Conejos 08021
- Custer 08027
- Delta 08029
- Douglas 08035
- Eagle 08037
- El Paso 08041
- Elbert 08039
- Fremont 08043
- Garfield 08045
- Gunnison 08051
- Huerfano 08055
- Jefferson 08059
- La Plata 08067
- Larimer 08069
- Las Animas 08071
- Mesa 08077
- Moffat 08081
- Montezuma 08083
- Montrose 08085
- Otero 08089
- Park 08093
- Pueblo 08101
- Rio Blanco 08103
- Routt 08107
- Saguache 08109
- San Juan 08111
- San Miguel 08113
- Teller 08119
- Weld 08123
Idaho view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Bernalillo 35001
- Catron 35003
- Cibola 35006
- Colfax 35007
- Dona Ana 35013
- Eddy 35015
- Grant 35017
- Harding 35021
- Hidalgo 35023
- Lincoln 35027
- Los Alamos 35028
- McKinley 35031
- Mora 35033
- Otero 35035
- Quay 35037
- Rio Arriba 35039
- San Juan 35045
- San Miguel 35047
- Sandoval 35043
- Santa Fe 35049
- Sierra 35051
- Socorro 35053
- Taos 35055
- Torrance 35057
- Union 35059
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 7 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Utah view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Beaver 49001
- Cache 49005
- Carbon 49007
- Daggett 49009
- Davis 49011
- Duchesne 49013
- Emery 49015
- Garfield 49017
- Grand 49019
- Iron 49021
- Juab 49023
- Kane 49025
- Millard 49027
- Morgan 49029
- Piute 49031
- Rich 49033
- Salt Lake 49035
- San Juan 49037
- Sanpete 49039
- Sevier 49041
- Summit 49043
- Tooele 49045
- Uintah 49047
- Utah 49049
- Wasatch 49051
- Washington 49053
- Wayne 49055
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CEMO2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3001912 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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