#514 most planted
Betula alleghaniensis
Yellow birch · also Golden birch, Swamp birch, Gray birch
1,569
trees mapped
0.02%
of all named trees
17
cities
2.0 in
median trunk (5 cm, 1,477 measured)
5.2 yr
median age (51% have a planting date)
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The Yellow birch (Betula alleghaniensis) is a large species native to northeastern North America, known for its distinctive golden bark. It is a valuable lumber tree, and its sap can also be used to produce syrup.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 4310.13%6.0 yr2.0 in
- 3170.20%2.2 yr2.0 in
- 2500.34%—9.3 in
- 1560.21%3.8 yr2.0 in
- 1100.03%—4.7 in
- 990.14%9.8 yr2.0 in
- 640.02%—2.4 in
- 540.01%—10 in
- 370.03%23 yr30 in
- 300.25%—3.0 in
- 110.00%—9.0 in
- 30.03%—7.9 in
- 20.01%—15 in
- 20.00%——
- 10.00%—17 in
- 10.00%—10 in
- 10.00%—19 in
Native range
Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
- New England-Acadian forests
Other Betula in the catalogue
20 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.
