Plants of USA and Canada

Scientific or common name:

Betula nana L.


BETULACEAE Family selection - Birch family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Betula nana L. Taxon selection
Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 983 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

US name U.S. name: Dwarf birch
en English name: alpine birch
English name: Arctic dwarf birch
French name: bouleau nain
Italian name: Betulla nana

Grown habit: Shrub, Subshrub
Duration: Perennial
 

Synonyms:


Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Betula nana L. ssp. exilis (Sukaczev) Hultén
2) Betula nana L. ssp. nana
3) Betula nana L. ssp. perfiljevii (V.N. Vassil.) A. Löve & D. Löve [excluded]
4) Betula nana L. var. glandulifera (Regel) B. Boivin
5) Betula nana L. var. renifolia (Fernald) B. Boivin
6) Betula nana L. var. sibirica Ledeb.



TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Hamamelididae
Order: Fagales
Family: Betulaceae
Genus: Betula
Species:


Page counter: 1285 ( AVG: 218.87 / 217.856 )



Gallery:

Betula nana
Betula nana
Credit: Photo by Anja Michelucci

Betula nana
Betula nana
Steve Hurst - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

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Betula nana
Picture modified from Graebner, Paul - Taschenbuch zum Pflanzenbestimmen (1918) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Betula nana
Betula nana
Picture modified from Bley, Franz - Botanisches Bilderbuch (1897/98) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Betula nana
Betula nana
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide to plant species. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. - Not copyrighted image

Betula nana
Betula nana
Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrations of the British Flora (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Betula nana
Betula nana
Hippolyte Coste - Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France, de la Corse et des contrées limitrophes, 1901-1906 - This image is in public domain because its copyright has expired.

Betula nana
Betula nana
Credit: Photo by Severino Costalonga

Betula nana
Betula nana
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 1: 612.


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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, CA, CO, ID, ME, MN, MT, NH, NY, OR, SD, UT, VT, WA, WY), CAN (AB, BC, NT, NU, SK, YT), DEN (GL)

Distributional map for Betula nana L.
Map for Betula nana L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA



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More species:
1) Betula nana L. ssp. nana [370]
2) Betula neoalaskana Sarg. var. kenaica (W.H. Evans) B. Boivin [196]
3) Betula nigra L. [361]
4) Betula odorata Bechst. [162]
5) Betula papyrifera Marsh. var. humilis (Regel) Fernald & Raup [166]
6) Betula papyrifera Marsh. var. subcordata (Rydb.) Sarg. [145]
7) Betula pubescens Ehrh. [1235]
8) Betula pumila L. var. glandulifera Regel [274]
9) Betula x alpestris Fr. [297]
10) Betula x jackii C.K. Schneid. [221]

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