Species Description
A medium-sized evergreen conifer with a very narrow conic crown.
Subalpine fir flowers are monoecious. Male flowers, usually abundant, are borne in pendulous clusters from the axils of the needles on the lower branchlets. Female flowers are fewer, borne erect and singly on the uppermost branchlets of the crown. Male flowers ripen, and pollen is wind-disseminated, during late spring and early summer. Cones are indigo blue when they open in mid-August to mid-October. Seed ripens from mid-September to late-October.
Species Details
FAMILY
Pinaceae
GENUS
Pinaceae
up to 20 metres tall
LIFE SPAN
120-140 years
HEMISPHERE
Northern
ECOSYSTEM
High altitudes, commonly found at and immediately below the tree line. It can be found at elevations of 300–900 mNative to the mountains of Yukon, British Columbia and western Alberta in Western Canada; and to Southeast Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Western Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, northeastern Nevada, and the Trinity Alps of the Klamath Mountains in northwestern California in the Western United States.
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Sources
https://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/pubs/misc/ag_654/volume_1/abies/lasiocarpa.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abies_lasiocarpa
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