Birch trees are beautiful, slender, and graceful specimens in the tree world. Native to much of the U.S. and Canada, various species of birch can be found from the Northwest, Canadian wilderness ...

The gray birch and the American white birch (also known as the paper birch tree) are both North American native species.

Consequently, when translated directly from Latin to English, Betula populifolia means “birch with poplar-like leaves.” Their gray/white chalky bark is reminiscent of their ecological counterpart, the ...

Such extensive feeding on both yellow birches and paper birches from sapsuckers can result in reduced growth, inferior wood quality, or even the death of the tree. Burns, R.M. and Honkala, B.H. 1990.