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Betula glandulosa
Also called Bog birch, Dwarf birch, Glandular birch, Glandular shrub birch, Scrub birch, Tundra dwarf birch, American dwarf birch
Betula glandulosa, the American dwarf birch, also known as resin birch or shrub birch, is a species of birch native to North America.
This plant occurs in arctic and cool temperate areas from Alaska east to Newfoundland and southern Greenland, and south at high elevations to northern California, Colorado, and the Black Hills of South Dakota in the west, and locally south to northern New York in the east. In the Arctic, it occurs down to sea level, while in the south of the range, it grows as high as 3,400 metres (11,200 ft) elevation.
Betula utilis subsp. albosinensis · Yellow birch · Himalayan birch · Betula austrosinensis · Betula celtiberica · Chichibu Birch · China birch · Hearleaf Birch · Korean Birch · Asian Black Birch · Erman's Birch · Japanese bog birch
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Betula glandulosa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
