     
Taxon: Betula nigra L.
Genus: Betula
Family: Betulaceae subfamily: Betuloideae.
Nomen number: 7118
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:982. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 10-Aug-1998 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 10-Aug-1998
Species priority site is: North Central Regional PI Station (NC7).
Accessions:
1 in National Plant Germplasm System.
Check PlantSearch
database of Botanic Gardens
Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.
- Environmental: erosion control (fide Trees US)
- Environmental: ornamental (fide Trees US)
- Materials: wood (fide R. B. Miller, pers. comm. 1996)
- More:
Native: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
- NORTHERN AMERICA
(Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York [e.], Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont [s.], West Virginia
North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa [e.], Kansas [s.e.], Minnesota [s.e.], Missouri, Oklahoma, Wisconsin
Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
Cultivated:
- 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).
- Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston.
1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas.
- Encke, F. et al.
1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
- FNA Editorial Committee.
1993–. Flora of North America.
- Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist.
1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.
- Govaerts, R. & D. G. Frodin.
1998. World checklist and bibliography of Fagales.
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third.
- Little, E. L., Jr.
1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541.
- Miller, R. B.
1996. pers. comm.
[re. common names].
- Radford, A. E. et al.
1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
- Rehder, A.
1949. Bibliography of cultivated trees and shrubs.
- Steyermark, J. A.
1977. Flora of Missouri.
- More:
Check other web resources for Betula nigra L.:
- 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
- ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Betula nigra cultivars
- 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:
- 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.
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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?7118 (25 May 2013)
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