Broad-leaved deciduous cottonwoods, alders, and willows, and aspens line streamsides and canyons. Willows, alders, cottonwoods, and sedges are found in riparian areas. Willows and alders are followed by black cottonwoods, then Sitka spruce. In Minnesota, aspens, willows, grasses, birches, alders, sumacs, and strawberries are consumed when green. Hundreds of thousands of willows, alders, and cottonwoods eventually died. Gorges and ravines are covered by oriental planes, willows, black alders and riverside greenery. Above this limit only stunted willows and alders are found. Spruce forests are interrupted by fields of salmonberry bushes, alders and wildflowers. Among the Red Alders are tussocks rich in herbs. Sometimes where the prevalence of alders is particularly prominent these are called alder carrs. Alders largely help create conditions favorable for giant conifers that replace them. Actinorhizal plants like alders are also common in the riparian forest. The area was then a wilderness with alders and willow forests. Alders are commonly found near streams, rivers, and wetlands. Despite its names, it is not related to the buttercups or the alders.