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Betula nigra
About
Betula nigra, the black birch, river birch or water birch, is a species of birch native to the Eastern United States from New Hampshire west to southern Minnesota, and south to northern Florida and west to Texas. It is one of the few heat-tolerant birches in a family of mostly cold-weather trees which do not thrive in USDA Zone 6 and up. B. nigra commonly occurs in floodplains and swamps.
- Family
- Betulaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Betula nigra
- Slug
- betula-nigra
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Betulaceae
- Genus
- Betula
- Species
- nigra
- Wikidata QID
- Q1510231
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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