Habitat: The
sweet birch is found in the open and in wooded uplands on moist, east- or
north-facing slopes. It is a medium-rate grower, performing best in deep,
rich, moist, well-drained, slightly acid soils, but often found on drier,
rocky sites. It tolerates the heavy soils of the Midwest.
Diseases: Although the sweet birch is resistant to the bronze birch borer, it is susceptible to most pests and diseases common to birches including birch skeletonizer, leaf miner, seed gall mite, canker, leaf rust and leaf spot. Birches are easily damaged by ice and snow breakage.
Distribution: 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.
