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Photographer: Robert W. Freckmann
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Family Betulaceae
Betula cordifolia Regel
heart-leaf birch, mountain white birch
Betula: ancient Latin name
cordifolia: in Latin means with "heart-shaped leaves"
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | perennial, to 65' tall tree often with several trunks and narrow crowns; bark dark reddish brown turning reddish white to tan or bronze with age, peeling in thin sheets; dark, horizontal lenticels |
| Flower: | catkin usually about 2" long; blooms in late spring |
| Fruit: | cylindrical, hanging fruit clusters; samara wings wider than the body, widest near the top |
| Leaf: | Narrowly ovate to ovate with a short tip; edges with coarse or irregular double teeth, usually with a heart-shaped base; mostly hairy below |
| Habitat: | moist; rocky slopes, rich woods |
| Notes: | very similar to B. papyrifera (white or paper birch) but more vertically erect and with more lower branches |
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