| Status: | Introduced – locally established |
| Plant: | perennial tree usually less than 40' tall, widely pyramid-shaped; trunks often clustered and erect; usually less than 6" in diameter; smooth bark dark reddish brown becoming grayish white with age; dark, horizontal lenticels |
| Flower: | male catkin 1"-2" long; blooms in late spring |
| Fruit: | nearly cylindrical, erect to hanging fruit clusters; samara wings much wider than the body, widest near the center |
| Leaf: | leaf widely oval to deltate or rhombic; edges coarsely, irregularly, sometimes doubly toothed |
| Habitat: | moist to dryish; open woods, slopes, waste places; in rocky to sandy soil |
| Notes: | very similar to B. papyrifera (white or paper birch) but smaller |
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