Betula pumila
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Betula pumila' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Other taxa in genus
- Betula albosinensis
- Betula alleghaniensis
- Betula × aurata
- Betula bomiensis
- Betula × caerulea
- Betula chichibuensis
- Betula chinensis
- Betula coerulea-grandis
- Betula cordifolia
- Betula corylifolia
- Betula cylindrostachya
- Betula davurica
- Betula delavayi
- Betula ermanii
- Betula forrestii
- Betula glandulosa
- Betula globispica
- Betula grossa
- Betula humilis
- Betula insignis
- Betula jacquemontii
- Betula lenta
- Betula luminifera
- Betula lutea
- Betula mandshurica
- Betula maximowicziana
- Betula medwediewii
- Betula nana
- Betula neoalaskana
- Betula nigra
- Betula occidentalis
- Betula papyrifera
- Betula pendula
- Betula platyphylla
- Betula populifolia
- Betula potaninii
- Betula pubescens
- Betula raddeana
- Betula schmidtii
- Betula szechuanica
- Betula tianschanica
- Betula × utahensis
- Betula utilis
An erect-habited shrub 2 to 9 (sometimes more) ft high; the young shoots downy or felted, but not warty. Leaves roundish, oval or obovate, 1⁄2 to 11⁄2 in. long, pointed or bluntish at the apex, coarsely toothed, more or less downy on both sides, often thickly so; pale or greyish beneath; chief veins in five or six pairs, the smaller ones in between them finely netted; leaf-stalk 1⁄8 in. or less long. Fruiting catkins 1⁄2 to 1 in. long, middle lobe of scales longer than the side ones.
Native of eastern N. America, where it inhabits boggy places from Labrador to Ohio. It is only likely to be confused in gardens with B. humilis and B. fruticosa, both of which have warted, glandular branchlets. It has little merit in the garden.
