Yellow Birch is a common medium-sized tree of medium to high elevations in the Mountains of North Carolina.

Haywood Co., NC 5/9/08.

The leaves are very similar to those of Black Birch (B. lenta) and have the same strong wintergreen scent when crushed.

Clay Co., NC 5/13/06.

The yellowish, exfoliating bark is by far the easiest way to identify Yellow Birch. Black Birch has tight dark reddish-brown bark with horizontally elongated lenticels.

Clay Co., NC 5/13/06.

Bark of a larger tree.

Clay Co., NC 5/20/07.

Bark of a medium-sized tree.

Haywood Co., NC 5/9/08.