Tree growing on the right-hand side of the northwest entry to the Student Services (the former health clinic) building.
Sweet birch is native
to the eastern woods from southern Quebec, southern Ontario and southern
Maine, south to the Appalachian Mountains in northern Alabama and Georgia.
Young trees and saplings were harvested by pioneers for extracting wintergreen
oil. This species exhibits the best autumn color of all commonly cultivated
birches, turning a rich, golden yellow in the fall, and tolerates the heavy
soils of the Midwest. It is an attractive tree for planting in parks and
naturalized areas.
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