DIVERSITY OF LIFE TOMPKINS COUNTY FLORA
Betula pendulaRoth
Mitchell NYNYFA TCUSDA NY
accepted accepted accepted
European White Birch, White Birch

Betulaceae

CAYUGA FLORA (1926) NOTES: Upland or damp lowland thickets ; occasional. Apr. 20-May 20. Knoll near D., L. & W. switchback, Six Mile Creek ; Beebe Lake ; Turkey Hill; woods n. of Cayuga Heights ; Taughannock Gorge ; Fox Ridge ; s. end of Westbury Prairie ; and elsewhere. Native: Que. to Alaska, southw. to Me., Ill., and Man. Found also in Eurasia. A circumpolar species of the Far North, coming south locally in the U.S. Many forms are in cultivation as ornamental trees, and escape occasionally to woods and%0D%0Athickets. At all the above stations the plant is unquestionably introduced. At Fox Ridge, where it forms a forest of several acres, it seems to have been planted or sown on previously cultivated ground. The cut-leaved forms of this species are var. dalecarlica Schneid. and var. gracilis Rehd. Apparently these forms have not escaped from cultivation. B. pendula differs from B. populifolia in the more rounded-ovate, less acuminate leaves, less glandular twigs, longer pistillate catkins with longer (3-5 mm.), less divaricate scales, and clustered staminate catkins. The New York State specimens of B. pendula have puberulent pistillate scales.


BH SPECIMENS FOR Betula pendula (this list may be incomplete)
 Ulysses, Taughannock Ravine, upper gorge, 13 Nov 1922, Eames 14695 (BH 13363);
 Ithaca, north bank of Six Mile Creek, below railroad switchback, gravelly knoll, 24 Aug 1919, Eames 11920 (BH 47588);
 Ithaca, north bank of Six Mile Creek, below switchback, gravelly knoll, 24 Aug 1919, Eames 11920 (BH 13373);
 Dryden, two miles north of Turkey Hill, 4 Nov 1922, Harper 14696 (BH 13374);
 Ithaca, 5 Jun 1906, Hitchcock (BH 13371);
 Ithaca, Fall Creek, 5 Jul 1920, Hyde (BH 13366);
 Ithaca, south of McKinneys, in old field, 23 Jun 1928, Muenscher 17189 (BH 13372);
 Ithaca, near McGowan Woods, pasture, 2 May 1937, Allen (BH 13368);
 Ithaca, Fall Creek, north shore of Beebe Lake, 24 Oct 1922, Eames 14694 (BH 13369);
 Ithaca, slope of Fall Creek Ravine, behind Sibley College, in woods, 16 Jun 1915, Eames & Thomas 3924 (BH 13370);

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