Also known as Lyall Larch or Alpine Tamarak. | ||
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General
Description:
A small deciduous tree often dwarfed, unsymmetrical, usually 15-20 m tall occasionally
taller and 5-6 (-10) dm in diameter; bark of the trunk slightly furrowed, reddish-brown;
young branches white-villous for about 2 seasons; leaves 3-4 cm long; cones
ellipsoid, 3-5 cm long, tomentose; scales obovate, erose; bracts much longer,
3 -lobed; seeds about 3 mm long. High mts. near timber line. Alberta to B. C
across N. Idaho to Washington. and Oregon.
Distribution:
Cascade Mountains of southern British Columbia to the Wenatchee Mountains Washington
east to Alberta northern Idaho and Western Montana.
Habitat:
Subalpine to alpine areas where the snow is last to leave.
Other:
Because of where it is found and its misshapen habit, this species is of little
or no economic value except for camping firewood. They are not known to be of
much value to wildlife.