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§1 Plant
Abies lasiocarpa (Hook.) Nutt.
vernacular subalpine fir — species · Pinaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Gymnosperm
- Family
- Pinaceae Spreng. ex Rudolphi
- Genus
- Abies
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Native
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 161 counties across 12 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- Low
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -51 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 120 min.
- Precipitation
- 20–150 in/yr
- pH range
- 4–6.5
- Root depth
- 40 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 90 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 15 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Dense
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 37,440
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- Yes
- Fuelwood
- Low
- Christmas tree
- Yes
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 161 counties across 12 states/territories.
Alaska view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 4 N ▾
California view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 21 N ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Adams 16003
- Bannock 16005
- Bear Lake 16007
- Blaine 16013
- Boise 16015
- Bonner 16017
- Bonneville 16019
- Caribou 16029
- Cassia 16031
- Clearwater 16035
- Custer 16037
- Elmore 16039
- Franklin 16041
- Fremont 16043
- Idaho 16049
- Latah 16057
- Lemhi 16059
- Lincoln 16063
- Madison 16065
- Owyhee 16073
- Shoshone 16079
- Teton 16081
- Twin Falls 16083
- Valley 16085
Montana view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 4 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Utah view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Beaver 49001
- Box Elder 49003
- Cache 49005
- Carbon 49007
- Daggett 49009
- Duchesne 49013
- Emery 49015
- Garfield 49017
- Grand 49019
- Iron 49021
- Juab 49023
- Kane 49025
- Morgan 49029
- Piute 49031
- Rich 49033
- Salt Lake 49035
- San Juan 49037
- Sanpete 49039
- Sevier 49041
- Summit 49043
- Tooele 49045
- Uintah 49047
- Utah 49049
- Wasatch 49051
- Washington 49053
- Wayne 49055
- Weber 49057
Washington view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Asotin 53003
- Chelan 53007
- Clallam 53009
- Columbia 53013
- Cowlitz 53015
- Ferry 53019
- Garfield 53023
- Jefferson 53031
- Kittitas 53037
- Lewis 53041
- Mason 53045
- Okanogan 53047
- Pend Oreille 53051
- Pierce 53053
- Skagit 53057
- Skamania 53059
- Snohomish 53061
- Spokane 53063
- Stevens 53065
- Walla Walla 53071
- Whatcom 53073
- Yakima 53077
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ABLA ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2685313 ↗Record version
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