Here’s a sample from a new list of climate-resilient, underused landscape trees suitable for urban environments, coming soon from University of Minnesota horticulturalists.

Yellow birch is monoecious, so the male and female flowers, which bloom in May, are borne separately on the same tree in clusters called catkins. Yellow birch has great yellow fall color.

The Adirondacks have more of the fall color species associated with New England, e.g., sugar maple, paper birch, yellow birch, and quaking aspen. Of all the trees in the Adirondacks, I think that the ...

Yellow Birch boasts distinctive features that facilitate its identification throughout its expansive range from Newfoundland to Georgia. A notable characteristic is the luminous quality of the bark on ...