Taxon: Betula alleghaniensis Britton

Common names:

• yellow birch   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• bouleau jaune   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• merisier   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• gulbjörk   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Fuels: charcoal   (fide Trees US)
  
• Fuels: fuelwood   (fide Trees US)
  
• Materials: fiber   (wood pulp and wood for furniture and wood alcohol fide Little 1978)
  
• Materials: wood   (wood pulp and wood for furniture and wood alcohol fide Little 1978)
  

More:

View phytochemical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois [n.], Iowa, Minnesota [e.], Wisconsin
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama [n.], Georgia [n.], Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina [w.], South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature.
• Brayshaw, T. C. 1966. The names of yellow birch and two of its varieties. Canad. Field-Naturalist 80:160–161.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Govaerts, R. & D. G. Frodin. 1998. World checklist and bibliography of Fagales.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1978. Important forest trees of the United States.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541.
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol. [= B. lutea].
• Wetter, M. A. et al. WISFLORA: Wisconsin vascular plant species (on-line resource).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Betula alleghaniensis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Betula alleghaniensis.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Betula alleghaniensis.

Synonyms:

• (=) Betula lutea auct.
  

Check other web resources for Betula alleghaniensis Britton:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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