Taxon: Larix laricina (Du Roi) K. Koch

Common names:

• American larch   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• eastern larch   (Source: AH 519 ) – English
  
• hackmatack   (Source: Trees US ) – English
  
• red larch   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• tamarack   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• kanadalärk   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Materials: fiber   (for wood pulp fide AH 519)
  
• Materials: wood   (fide F NAmer)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  

More:

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Subarctic America: Canada - Northwest Territory, Yukon Territory; United States - Alaska
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio [n.], Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia [n.]
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois [n.], Minnesota, Wisconsin
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Maryland

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Farjon, A. 1990. Pinaceae: Drawings and descriptions of the genera Abies, Cedrus, Pseudolarix, Keteleeria, Nothotsuga, Tsuga, Cathaya, Pseudotsuga, Larix and Picea. Regnum Veg. 121.
• Farjon, A. 2001. World checklist and bibliography of conifers, ed. 2.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1978. Important forest trees of the United States.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Silba, J. 1986. Encyclopaedia Coniferae. Phytologia Mem. 8:106.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Larix laricina.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Larix laricina.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Larix laricina.

Synonyms:

• (=) Larix americana Michx.
  
• (≡) Pinus laricina Du Roi (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Larix laricina (Du Roi) K. Koch:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Gymnosperm Database of Christopher J. Earle
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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