Intermingled with the pines were shorter, ragged-looking trees with lumpy trunks, wizened branches and fine twigs like gnarled fingers: Betula pubescens, downy birch.
Betula occidentalis , the only birch, is a small, slender tree restricted to the eastern flank of the range along stream-sides below the pine-belt, especially in Owen's Valley.
Betula occidentalis 唯一白桦树,一种细长树,仅限于松树带下方沿溪流两侧分布东侧,尤其在欧文谷。