Bog Birch, Dwarf Birch, Swamp Birch

I've only seen one planted at Morton Arboretum in Lisle Illinois in the Midwest Collection. It is not flashy but it is an interesting nat...Read Moreive plant over most of Canada, the Pacific Northwest, the northern Rocky Mountains, around the Great Lakes, and in parts of New England. It does bear some good coppery-brown smooth bark with warty lenticels and it gets good yellow fall color. It has shallow, fibrous roots, but it is still hard to transplant. It often grows in bogs and swamps with Tamarack, Black Spruce, Arborvitae, Black Ash, and other wetland plants. The arboretum specimen is doing well in neutral pH silty upland soil.