Difference between revisions of "Betula pubescens subsp. pubescens"

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Common names: European white birch downy birch
Introduced
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 3.
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|discussion=<p>Betula pubescens subsp. pubescens is commonly cultivated in northeastern North America, where it has sometimes escaped and persisted, or become adventive but not widely naturalized. It is distinguished from other light-barked species in the East by its relatively small leaves, pubescent twigs, and brownish, mostly unpeeling bark.</p>
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Revision as of 17:16, 18 September 2019

Trees, narrow, to 20 m; trunk usually 1, branches ascending or spreading. Twigs usually without conspicuous resinous glands. Leaf blade broadly ovate to rhomic-ovate, 3–4(–6) × 2–4(–6) cm, base rounded, truncate, or cuneate, margins finely to coarsely toothed or dentate, apex acute; surfaces abaxially moderately pubescent to velutinous, especially along major veins and in vein axils. Fruiting catkins 2–3 × 0.8–1.2 cm; scales puberulent and ciliate, lobes diverging at middle, central lobes ovate to delatate, apex acute to obtuse, lateral lobes divergent, about equal in length, several times broader. Samaras with wings somewhat broader than body, broadest near summit, extended beyond body apically. 2n = 56.


Phenology: Flowering late spring.
Habitat: Rocky slopes, scrubs, heaths, and open woods where native, elsewhere in abandoned plantings, moist open roadsides, swales, swampy thickets
Elevation: 0–200 m

Distribution

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B.C., Conn., Ind., Maine, Mass., N.H., Ohio, Pa., Vt., native to Europe.

Discussion

Betula pubescens subsp. pubescens is commonly cultivated in northeastern North America, where it has sometimes escaped and persisted, or become adventive but not widely naturalized. It is distinguished from other light-barked species in the East by its relatively small leaves, pubescent twigs, and brownish, mostly unpeeling bark.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
John J. Furlow +
unknown +
European white birch +  and downy birch +
B.C. +, Conn. +, Ind. +, Maine +, Mass. +, N.H. +, Ohio +, Pa. +, Vt. +  and native to Europe. +
0–200 m +
Rocky slopes, scrubs, heaths, and open woods where native, elsewhere in abandoned plantings, moist open roadsides, swales, swampy thickets +
Flowering late spring. +
Beitr. Naturk. +
Introduced +
Betula alba var. pubescens +
Betula pubescens subsp. pubescens +
Betula pubescens +
subspecies +