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Abies lasiocarpa
Also called Alpine Fir, Alpine Fur, Balsam Fir, Rocky Mountain Fir, Western Balsam Fir, White Balsam
Subalpine fir is a narrow, cone-shaped evergreen conifer of western North American mountains, grown as an ornamental and Christmas tree. It needs cool conditions, good drainage and room to grow, as it does poorly in hot, humid lowland gardens.
Abies lasiocarpa, the subalpine fir or Rocky Mountain fir, is a western North American fir tree.
The species is native to the mountains of Yukon, British Columbia and western Alberta in Western Canada; and to Southeast Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Western Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, northeastern Nevada, and the Trinity Alps of the Klamath Mountains in northwestern California in the Western United States.
Native Americans used the leaves as deodorant and burned them as incense or medicinal vapor. Powdered bark and other components were used in solutions to treat colds. Resin was used to dress wounds or chewed as gum. The tree boughs were used for bedding. Some Plateau Indian tribes drank or washed in a subalpine fir boil for purification or to make their hair grow.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Abies lasiocarpa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
