Native in the Pacific NW. We had a stand of this established when we bought our farm, and it has steadily spread out. The suckers can be a problem, they roam far and wide. But, what a lovely sound when the wind rustles through the leaves. I get a rather dull gold in the fall, but on the colder side of our state, these trees absolutely shine.

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A wonderful, beautiful native tree with a large native range covering most of all Canada, some of Alaska, the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevada Mountains out West, New England down to northern New Jersey, northern Pennsylvania, spots in West Virginia, and around the Great Lakes. Fast growing of 2 to 4 feet/year and lives about 40 to 100 years, depending. It has a shallow, fibrous root system that can often cause more trees to sprout up from that system and make a colony. I knew of a landscaper from McKay Nursery in the 1970's in southern Wisconsin who planted sapling trees about 6 to 8 feet high bare root into northern Illinois landscapes. It is offered by some large, diverse nurseries, native plant nurseries, and mail order nurseries. The nearly circular leaves get 1 to 3 inches in diameter and have small, rounded teeth on the margins, and the leaves that quake in the breeze develop good to excellent golden fall color. Beautiful, smooth, tight, white to cream bark. The trunks of each tree is single and is not forming a clump of two or a few trunks like white birches do. The species can suffer some from humid and warm-hot conditions in more southern zones of 5 & 6 and be picked on by Hypoxylon Canker and some leaf spots.

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Utah's state tree.

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