Downy birch
Betula pubescens Ehrh.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 20 m
- wide
- 10 m
Betulaceae
Also called White Birch, Brown Birch, Downy Birch, Mountain Birch
When it flowers
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Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
PetsNo pet-safety information yet
PeopleNo safety information yet
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Newfoundland to Greenland, Europe to Russian Far East and N. IranKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Plants For A Future, one source
- Height
- 20 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants For A Future, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Wikipedia 10–20 m; Plants For A Future 20–20 m
- Spread
- 10 mRead from Plants For A Future, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -45.6 °C (USDA zone 2a)Read from Plants For A Future, one source
Not known yet: water, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Russian
- Берёза пушистая
- Northern Sami
- Soahki
- Swedish
- Glasbjörk
- Turkish
- Tüylü huş
- Ukrainian
- Береза пухнаста
- Walloon
- Blanke beyôle
- Chinese
- 毛桦
- Galician
- Bidueiro
- Slovenian
- puhasta breza
- Azerbaijani
- Tükcüklü tozağacı
- Belarusian
- Бяроза пушыстая
- Catalan
- Bedoll pubescent
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants For A Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Betula pubescens (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.