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Western birch   /wˈɛstərn bərtʃ/   Listen
Western birch

noun
1.
Birch of western United States resembling the paper birch but having brownish bark.  Synonyms: Betula fontinalis, mountain birch, swamp birch, water birch, Western paper birch.





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"Western birch" Quotes from Famous Books



... The birch—the brown-bark western birch characteristic of lower stream tangles—is a spoil sport. It grows thickly to choke the stream that feeds it; grudges it the sky and space for angler's rod and fly. The willows do better; painted-cup, cypripedium, and the hollow stalks of span-broad white umbels, find a footing among their stems. ...
— The Land Of Little Rain • Mary Hunter Austin


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