| Tsuga mertensiana (Bong.) Sarg. | |||
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| Family | Pinaceae — APG family: Pinaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Pinus mertensiana Bong. | ||
| Common name | mountain hemlock | ||
| Description | Tree up to 20-30 meters tall, but often short and dwarfed, with horizontal or drooping branches and grayish to brownish furrowed bark; needles usually curved, stout, keeled above, blue-green, stomatiferous on both sides; cones cylindrical, longer than in T. heterophylla, hanging, purplish, later brown. | ||
| Ecology | Muskegs and mountain slopes from sea level up to 1,200 meters, reaching beyond altitudinal limit of T. heterophylla, and most common in mountains. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.