Betula occidentalis

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Internal ID UUID643ff0ea20f2c746228674
Scientific name Betula occidentalis
Authority Hook.
First published in Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 155 (1838)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Betula alba f. occidentalis (Hook.) Fernald Amer. J. Sci. , ser. 4, 14: 173 (1902)
Betula beeniana A.Nelson Amer. J. Bot. 32: 284 (1945)
Betula elrodiana B.T.Butler Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 36: 426 (1909)
Betula fontinalis Sarg. Bot. Gaz. 31: 239 (1901)
Betula occidentalis f. inopina Jeps. Fl. Calif. 1: 349 (1909)
Betula occidentalis subsp. inopina (Jeps.) A.E.Murray Kalmia 13: 3 (1983)
Betula papyrifera subsp. occidentalis (Hook.) Hultén Acta Univ. Lund., 2 , 40(1): 582 (1944)
Betula papyrifera var. occidentalis (Hook.) Sarg. J. Arnold Arbor. 1: 63 (1919)
Betula alba subsp. occidentalis (Hook.) Regel Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 38(II): 400 (1865)
Betula fontinalis var. inopina (Jeps.) Jeps. Man. Fl. Pl. Calif. : 270 (1923)
Betula microphylla var. fontinalis M.E.Jones Contr. W. Bot. 12: 77 (1908)
Betula microphylla var. occidentalis M.E.Jones Contr. W. Bot. 12: 77 (1908)
Betula occidentalis var. inopina (Jeps.) C.L.Hitchc. Vasc. Pl. Pacif. N. W. 2: 78 (1964)
Betula papyracea var. occidentalis Dippel Handb. Laubholzk. 2: 177 (1891)
Betula fontinalis f. inopina Jeps. Fl. Calif. 1: 349 1909

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Language Common/alternative name
English black birch
English red birch
English river birch
English water birch
English mountain birch
English western birch
Bulgarian западна бреза
Estonian läänekask
Persian توس غربی
Finnish jokikoivu
French bouleau fontinal
French bouleau occidental
Icelandic lindabjörk
Russian Берёза западная

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  • Northern America
    • Eastern Canada
      • Ontario
    • North-central U.S.A.
      • Nebraska
      • North Dakota
      • South Dakota
    • Northwestern U.S.A.
      • Colorado
      • Idaho
      • Montana
      • Oregon
      • Washington
      • Wyoming
    • South-central U.S.A.
      • New Mexico
    • Southwestern U.S.A.
      • Arizona
      • California
      • Nevada
      • Utah
    • Subarctic America
      • Alaska
      • Northwest Territorie
      • Yukon
    • Western Canada
      • Alberta
      • British Columbia
      • Manitoba
      • Saskatchewan

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000334989
UNII NPA6EIU3QB
Canadensys 3696
USDA Plants BEOC2
Tropicos 3600016
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:295159-1
The Plant List kew-21535
Missouri Botanical Garden 277817
PaleoBotany 71731
Open Tree Of Life 240966
NCBI Taxonomy 223244
Nature Serve 2.154206
IUCN Red List 194643
IPNI 295159-1
iNaturalist 75764
GBIF 5332055
Freebase /m/03x_m45
FEIS plants/tree/betocc
EPPO BETOC
EOL 1149370
Elurikkus 3100
Calflora (Californian flora) 1084
USDA GRIN 7119
Wikipedia Betula_occidentalis

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A cryptic syngameon within Betula shrubs revealed: Implications for conservation in changing subarctic environments Touchette L, Godbout J, Lamothe M, Porth I, Isabel N Evol Appl 17-Apr-2024
PMCID:PMC11022622
doi:10.1111/eva.13689
PMID:38633131
Insights from specimen data for two economic Chrysobothris species (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) in the western United States Rudolph EA, Wiman NG Ann Entomol Soc Am 20-Apr-2023
PMCID:PMC10350839
doi:10.1093/aesa/saad009
PMID:37465725
Phytoremediation as an Effective Remedy for Removing Trace Elements from Ecosystems Mocek-Płóciniak A, Mencel J, Zakrzewski W, Roszkowski S Plants (Basel) 14-Apr-2023
PMCID:PMC10141480
doi:10.3390/plants12081653
PMID:37111876
Characterization of the complete chloroplast genome of Betula pendula purple rain (betulaceae) Zhang M, Gao Y, Su X, Liu W, Guo Y, Jiang J, Ma W Mitochondrial DNA B Resour 20-Feb-2023
PMCID:PMC9946319
doi:10.1080/23802359.2023.2176182
PMID:36845004
Phytoremediation of Heavy Metals: An Indispensable Contrivance in Green Remediation Technology Sabreena, Hassan S, Bhat SA, Kumar V, Ganai BA, Ameen F Plants (Basel) 06-May-2022
PMCID:PMC9104525
doi:10.3390/plants11091255
PMID:35567256
More smooth-spored species of Inocybe (Agaricales, Ba sidiomycota): type studies and 12 new species from Europe Bandini D, Oertel B, Eberhardt U Persoonia 04-Apr-2022
PMCID:PMC10792289
doi:10.3767/persoonia.2023.48.03
PMID:38234688
Critical summer foraging tradeoffs in a subarctic ungulate Ehlers L, Coulombe G, Herriges J, Bentzen T, Suitor M, Joly K, Hebblewhite M Ecol Evol 06-Dec-2021
PMCID:PMC8717276
doi:10.1002/ece3.8349
PMID:35003643
Cavitation fatigue in conifers: a study on eight European species Feng F, Losso A, Tyree M, Zhang S, Mayr S Plant Physiol 27-Apr-2021
PMCID:PMC8260135
doi:10.1093/plphys/kiab170
PMID:33905499
Short Rotation Intensive Culture of Willow, Spent Mushroom Substrate and Ramial Chipped Wood for Bioremediation of a Contaminated Site Used for Land Farming Activities of a Former Petrochemical Plant Fortin Faubert M, Hijri M, Labrecque M Plants (Basel) 10-Mar-2021
PMCID:PMC7999893
doi:10.3390/plants10030520
PMID:33802206
Directional change in leaf dry matter δ 13C during leaf development is widespread in C3 plants Vogado NO, Winter K, Ubierna N, Farquhar GD, Cernusak LA Ann Bot 24-Jun-2020
PMCID:PMC7596372
doi:10.1093/aob/mcaa114
PMID:32577724
Exchange of medicinal plant information in California missions McBride JR, Cavero RY, Cheshire AL, Calvo MI, McBride DL J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 15-Jun-2020
PMCID:PMC7296748
doi:10.1186/s13002-020-00388-y
PMID:32539795
Complete chloroplast genome sequence of Betula microphylla (Betulaceae) Hua D, Zhu J Mitochondrial DNA B Resour 23-May-2020
PMCID:PMC7510756
doi:10.1080/23802359.2020.1768923
PMID:33366950
Phytoremediation: A Promising Approach for Revegetation of Heavy Metal-Polluted Land Yan A, Wang Y, Tan SN, Mohd Yusof ML, Ghosh S, Chen Z Front Plant Sci 30-Apr-2020
PMCID:PMC7203417
doi:10.3389/fpls.2020.00359
PMID:32425957
Expanding and testing fluorescent amplified fragment length polymorphisms for identifying roots of boreal forest plant species Metzler P, La Flèche M, Karst J Appl Plant Sci 08-Apr-2019
PMCID:PMC6476169
doi:10.1002/aps3.1236
PMID:31024780
Habitat-mediated breeding performance of Lewis’s Woodpeckers (Melanerpes lewis) in British Columbia Macfarland L, Mahony NA, Harrison M, Green D PLoS One 20-Mar-2019
PMCID:PMC6426180
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0212929
PMID:30893345

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