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Bristlecone Fir

Abies bracteata

Also called Santa Lucia Fir, Silver Fir

Bristlecone Fir
Photo: Silversyrpher (very busy at the moment) from Scotland, UK, CC BY 2.0
Family
Pinaceae (Pine family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
S. California (Santa Lucia Mts.)
Climate
temperate

About

Abies bracteata, the Santa Lucia fir or bristlecone fir, is the rarest fir in North America. It is confined to steep-sided slopes and the bottoms of rocky canyons in the Santa Lucia Mountains, in the Big Sur region on the central coast of California, United States.

Other Abies plants

Silver Fir · Pacific Silver Fir · Balsam Fir · Baishan Fir · Greek Fir · Shensi Fir · Cilician Fir · White Fir · Fansipan Fir · Delavay's Fir · Sikkim Fir · Durango Fir

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Abies bracteata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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