When it blooms
In bloom: April to May
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How to grow it
- Light
- Full sun, Part shade
- Soil
- Moist
- Size
- 12 m–20 m
- Family
- Betulaceae
- Native to
- Ontario
What it feeds
Paper Birch is a host plant local wildlife depends on. These are the beings it brings back.
Luna MothSpecialistMothOne of our most beautiful moths raises its young on native trees like birch and serviceberry.
Photos: Photo by Shawn Hanrahan, CC BY-SA 2.5
Plant it with
Other native plants the Luna Moth also depends on. Grow a few together and you give it food across the whole season.
Grow Paper Birch where you live
Add it to your garden on Hortus, get a free report card of the wildlife it brings back, and find a nursery near you that carries it.