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Birch
Betula sp
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Characteristics
• Papery bark with horizontal lenticels
• Triangular leaves serrated or doubly serrate
• Strange little cylindrical cones
• Many ornamental species, Native Water Birch is most common in Eastern Oregon and has reddish brown bark
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Ecology
• Water birch an important riparian species in Eastern Oregon
• Scrub birch found in mountain meadows
• Buds eaten by grouse and Mountain Quail
• Twigs browsed by deer and elk
• Ornamentals all over Klamath Falls
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