| Sweet birch | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fagales |
| Family: | Betulaceae |
| Genus: | Betula |
| Subgenus: | Betula subg. Betulenta |
| Species: | B. lenta
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| Binomial name | |
| Betula lenta | |
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| Natural range of Betula lenta | |
Betula lenta (sweet birch, also known as black birch, cherry birch, mahogany birch, or spice birch) is a species of birch native to eastern North America, from southern Maine west to southernmost Ontario, and south in the Appalachian Mountains to northern Georgia.
- ^ Stritch, L. (2014). "Betula lenta". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T194483A2340770. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T194483A2340770.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.