| american white birch | (n) small American birch with peeling white bark often worked into e.g. baskets or toy canoes, Syn. canoe birch, Betula papyrifera, paper birch, paperbark birch, Betula cordifolia |
| swamp birch | (n) birch of western United States resembling the paper birch but having brownish bark, Syn. Western birch, water birch, Betula fontinalis, mountain birch, Western paper birch |