The yellow birch is the birch most common on my land. Betula alleghaniensis is its scientific name, and it is in the left hand photo below, followed by white, or paper, birch (B. papyrifera) and river birch (B. nigra).



They are all distinctly different – I do wish I’d gotten a photo of the yellow birch glowing in the sunlight, instead of choosing the most interesting texture of bark; I should have been able to do both!