gray birch
noun
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: a small birch (Betula populifolia) of northeastern North America that has many lateral branches, grayish-white bark, triangular leaves, and soft weak wood and that occurs especially in old fields reverting to woodland
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By planting wild indigo, gray birch, and switchgrass, his goal was to take a chunk of the Catskills and put it on his roof.
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“Gray birch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gray%20birch. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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