Taxon: Abies lasiocarpa (Hook.) Nutt.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Abies lasiocarpa var. arizonica (no accessions)

Common names:

• alpine fir   (Source: F NAmer )
  
• sapin concolore   (Source: F NAmer )
  
• subalpine fir   (Source: F NAmer )
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide AH 519)
  
• Materials: wood   (fide AH 519; F Eur ed2)
  

More:

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Subarctic America: Canada - Yukon Territory; United States - Alaska
  Western Canada: Canada - British Columbia
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Oregon, Washington
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California

References:

• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Fowells, H. A. 1965. Silvics of forest trees of the United States. (AH 271)
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, second edition. (F Eur ed2) [cult.].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Abies lasiocarpa.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Abies lasiocarpa. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• Abies arizonica Merriam [≡ Abies lasiocarpa var. arizonica]
  
• (≡) Pinus lasiocarpa Hook. (basionym)
  

Check other databases for Abies lasiocarpa (Hook.) Nutt.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• 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
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority for Abies lasiocarpa cultivars
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

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

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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