Adaptable to diverse terrains, Yellow Birch thrives from Newfoundland to Georgia, flourishing in various stages of forest succession on well-drained loams, sandy loams, Spodosols, and Inceptisols.

Indeed it was: mollisols and ultisols were red, spodosols and inceptisols were blue. We all erupted in laughter, both at the amusing observation and our own obsession. As I thought about that ...