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Tundra Dwarf Birch, Betula glandulosa Michx.

Height: A depressed or erect shrub up to 2 m high.

Twigs: Smooth or with a few small hairs, and are covered with glandular dots. Older bark is dark brown and shiny, and has scattered lenticels.

Leaves: Alternate, oval, round or inversely ovate, 1-2.5 cm long, irregularly and coarsely toothed, shiny, mostly hairless, and leathery on surfaces, dark green above and paler beneath.

Cones: Erect, on long stalks, oblong and 1-1.5 cm long. Bracts have 3 ascending lobes. The wings are narrow less than have the width of the nutlet.

Habitat: Found on windswept barrens, hillsides and mountains of western, west-central and northern Newfoundland, and Labrador.

Source: Native Trees and Shrubs
of Newfoundland and Labrador
By A. Glen Ryan

Used with permission from
Parks and Natural Areas Division
Department of Environment and Conservation
Government of Newfoundland and Labrador 1995