Taxon: Abies lasiocarpa (Hook.) Nutt.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Abies lasiocarpa var. arizonica (no accessions)

Common names:

• alpine fir   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• cork-bark fir   (Source: F NAmer 2:360.) – English   [Abies lasiocarpa var. arizonica]
  
• subalpine fir   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• sapin concolore   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• abete lasiocarpo   (Source: Mult Glossary Trees ) – Italian
  
• berggran   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  
• korkgran   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish   [Abies lasiocarpa var. arizonica]
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

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

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View 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 - 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

• also cultivated

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).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Fowells, H. A. 1965. Silvics of forest trees of the United States.
• International Seed Testing Association. 1971. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 2. Trees.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1978. Important forest trees of the United States.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, second edition. [cult.].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Abies lasiocarpa.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Abies lasiocarpa.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Abies lasiocarpa.

Synonyms:

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

Check other web resources 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
• 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
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). 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.

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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