USDA Forest Service Celebrating Wildflowers
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Threatened, Endangered, and Proposed (TEP) Plant Profile
Betula uber, Virginia roundleaf birch
ESA Status
Visit the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Species Profile link below for links to listing and other USFWS documents.
Threats
- Collection for scientific purposes
- Limited habitat for seedlings (small forest openings with exposed mineral soil)
- Periodic flooding and droughty soils
- Vandalism, road and transmission line maintenance, and other human activity
- Herbivory
- Long distances between pollen sources
- Low seed viability and a breeding system that permits heavy gene exchange with sweet birch
Conservation Status
National Forest and Grassland Occurrence
More Information
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U.S. Forest Service
Rangeland Management
Botany Program
1400 Independence Ave., SW, Mailstop Code: 1103
Washington DC 20250-1103

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Location: http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/rareplants/profiles/tep/betula_uber/index.shtml
Last modified: Wednesday, 13-Oct-2010 14:36:16 EDT