Conifers
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Larches – Larix
Unlike
most conifers, larches are deciduous, dropping their needles in
the fall. The needles grow in bundles like the pines, but they have
many more needles per bundle, and each bundle grows on a distinctive
little spur twig. Two species of larch grow in the Northwest.
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Alpine Larch
– Larix lyallii
Needles:
Bundles
of 20-40, 1-2" long
Cones: 1-2" Round scales,
whiskery bracts
Bark: Gray scales
Where: At timberline in
the North Cascades
of
Washington
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