| Abies lasiocarpa (Hook.) Nutt. | |||
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| Family | Pinaceae — APG family: Pinaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Pinus lasiocarpa Hook. | ||
| Common name | alpine fir | ||
| Description | Small or medium-sized tree with long narrow crown, but becoming shrubby and prostrate at its altitudinal limit. Young twigs reddish pubescent; needles curved upward, blue-green, obtuse, with stomata on all sides; staminate flowers bluish; cones oblong, erect, purple-colored, with fan-shaped scales. | ||
| Ecology | Common, sometimes dominant, on mountain slopes, chiefly in acid soil in interior, extending to about 1,500 meters. Described from interior northwestern North America. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Reported from localities marked on map, and from Copper River valley. |
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.