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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Western Larch
– Larix occidentalis
Needles: Bundles
of 25
Cones: 1-Up to 2" (5 cm) long,
whiskery
bracts
Bark Flaky scales, furrowed
Where: Cascades, up to 6000
ft (1800 m)
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Alpine Larch
– Larix lyallii
Needles:
Bundles
of 20-40
Cones: 11-Up to 2" (5 cm) long,
whiskery bracts
Bark: Gray scales
Where: At timberline in
the North Cascades
of
Washington
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