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Photographer: Robert R. Kowal
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Family Betulaceae
Betula pendula Roth
European white birch, weeping birch
Betula: ancient Latin name
pendula: hanging
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| Status: | Introduced - escaped |
| Plant: | perennial tree to 80' tall usually with several trunks and a spreading crown; bark creamy to silvery white, smooth, peeling in long pieces; dark, horizontal lenticels; branches hanging |
| Flower: | blooms in late spring |
| Fruit: | cylindrical, erect to almost hanging fruit clusters; samara wings much wider than the body, widest near the center |
| Leaf: | leaf widely oval to rhombic, edges coarsely to doubly, sharply toothed |
| Habitat: | moist to dry; disturbed areas, roadsides, edges of bogs |
| Notes: | often hybirdizes |
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