Betula pubescens
Downy birch · also Moor birch, White birch, European white birch
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Betula pubescens, commonly known as downy birch, is a deciduous pioneer species native to northern Europe and Asia. It is characterized by rhomboidal leaves and pubescent gray-brown shoots with horizontal lenticels. This tree thrives in moist, poorly drained, or degraded soils, making it adaptable to challenging urban environments.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 3,9920.35%—2.6 in
- 1,7890.63%46 yr9.8 in
- 8971.2%—16 in
- 1110.05%—4.8 in
- 940.19%47 yr8.8 in
- 170.00%64 yr13 in
- 110.01%23 yr13 in
- 50.00%—17 in
- 20.00%——
Traits
- Form
- Broadleaf
- Foliage
- Deciduous
- Mature height
- 50–70 ft
- Canopy spread
- 25–35 ft
- Wildlife value
- Moderate
Trunk diameters across every city: median 3.1 in, mean 5.9 in, 90th percentile 16 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.
Native range
Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
- Baltic mixed forests
- Central Anatolian steppe and woodlands
- Central European mixed forests
- East European forest steppe
- Eastern Anatolian deciduous forests
- European Atlantic mixed forests
- Western European broadleaf forests
Montane Grasslands & Shrublands
- Kuh Rud and Eastern Iran montane woodlands
Other Betula in the catalogue
20 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.
