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Picea Engelmannii CONIFERS: Coast Redwood Ponderosa Pine - Pinus ponderosa CONIFERS: Grand Fir - Abies grandis Mountain Hemlock - Tsuga mertensiana Coast Redwood - Sequoia sempervirens Coniferous tree 60’ to 100’ tall, and 2’ to 3’ in Very important large timber tree 125’ to 180’ tall and 3’ to 6’ Large evergreen conifer, 125’ - 250’ tall and 2-6” in diameter; diameter; with a pyramidal crown of droop- in diameter. Open crown of green to yellow-green foliage long narrow open crown that is rounded or A large tree, 180-370’ tall and 8-23’ in diameter with ing branches and dense foliage. Usually a clustered out near the branch in scaly plates. flat-topped. Usually found on moist situations dark reddish-brown fibrous bark. Foung tree of high elevations or the cooler expo- State tree of Montana. Grows on a on mountain slopes and in the valleys and in Pacific Coast fog belt from extreme SW sures of the middle slopes. It does best on wide variety of soils, and under bottomlands. Ranges from southern British Oregon through Monterey County in central moist, coarse, well-drained soild. Ranges varying moisture conditions, but Columbia southward on the west side of CA. Range varies in width from 10-40 miles from soughern Alaska southward to central most commonly found on dry, sandy, the Cascade Mountains into northwestern and is broken in several places; seems California, and east to northeastern Oregon, or gravelly soils. Ponderosa pine California, eastward through northern Idaho and dependent on high humidity. Best stands northern Idaho and western Montana. occurs in every state from the Rocky western Montana. Elevational range: sea level develop on alluvial bottoms and benches where Elevational range: 4,000 to 9,500 feet in the Mountains to the Pacific Coast, also in to 6,000 feet. soild are moist but Cascade Mountains. the Black Hills of South Dakota, and from well-drained. Range. Elevation: 0-3000’. southern British Columbia to northern Mexico. Elevational range: as low as 200 feet on the floor of the Willamette Valley, and up to 9,000 feet in the San Jacinto Mountains in Douglas Fir - Pseudotsuga menziesii v. menziesii California. Intolerant. Noble Fir - Abies procera A large tree 100’ to 250’ or more tall, and 3’ to 6’ in diameter; A tall, rather intolerant, straight tree with the trunk often clear with a broad, pointed, pyramidal crown of dense foliage. Incense Cedar - Calocedrus decurrens Pacific Silver Fir of limbs for half to two-thirds its length. The crown is conical - Abies amabilis Will grow on a wide variety of soils, but in the Douglas- on open grown trees, but more rounded when crowded Coniferous tree with a long conical crown of dense fir Region of western Oregon and Washington does Evergreen trees 70’ to 110’ tall, and 3’ to 5’ in diameter, in mature stands. Grows 140’ to 200’ tall, and 3’ foliage; thin, mottled ashy-gray to best on deep, moist, sandy loams; poorest on with a conical crown of frond-like branches. Does to 5’ in diameter. Mountain slopes, benches chalky-white bark. Size 100’ to 180’ tall gravelly soils. Ranges from central British Co- best on moist porous soils, but is able to adapt itself and low ridges: moisture demanding, but and 2’ to 4’ in diameter. Occurs on moist lumbia and southwestern Alberta southward into to various soil types. Although available moisture not demanding in other soil requirements. well-drained sandy or gravelly soils from the mountains of northern and central Mexico, determines its local in the southern part of its range, Found in Washington and Oregon in the Coast southeast Alaska throughout western and from the Pacific Coast to the Rocky Mountains. it apparently is less moisture demanding than Range and the Cascade Mountains, and as far British Columbia, Washington and Douglas-fir is intermediate in tolerance, slightly tolerant in its the other “cedars”. Found on both slopes of the sough as the Siskiyou and Scott Mountains in Oregon. Locally in northern Califor- youth, but becoming less tolerant with age. Cascades in Oregon, the northern Coast Range and the length of the Sierra Nevada Mountains northwestern California. Elevational range: 1,400 nia. Elevational range: 1000’ - 6500’ in in California; also Lower California. Elevational Washington and Oregon. range: 1,000 to 6,600 feet in Oregon. Engelmann Spruce - Picea engelmannii An inhabitant of the mountains, 80’ to 120’ tall, and 1-1/2’ to 3’ in diameter, with a dense crown of blue-green foliage. Does best on Sugar Pine - Pinus lambertiana moist, well-drained soils, but can grow on thin soild on mountain Largest of the pines. 150’ to 200’ tall, and 2’ to 7’ slopes or the wet margins of swamps, streams and lakes. Ranges in diameter. Distinguishing characters include red, from central British Columbia and southwestern Alberta, southward Lodgepole Pine - Pinus contorta v. latifolia ridged bark; cylindrical bole free of branches for through the Cascades of Washington and Oregon into extreme Port Orford Cedar - Chamaecyparis lawsoniana much of its length, and topped by an California eastward into the Rocky Mountains from central Montana A tree 30’ to 100’ tall and 1’ to 2’ in diameter. Near the Pacific open crown composed of a few long, to southern New Mexico.Elvational range in the Cascades is 3,500 Ocean this species is often malformed, twisted, and con- Trees 125’ to 200’ tall, and 3’ to 6’ in diameter; with a pyramidal nearly horizontal, branches with long to 10,000 feet. torted by the winds, and at times is no more than crown of pendulous, frond-like branches. Tolerant. Most com- cones, mostly solitary, hanging from the a large, bushy shrub. In the mountains it is often monly found on moist, well-drained soils in the coastal fog belt ends of these branches. Occurs on a Giant Sequoia - Sequoiadendron giganteum found in pure stands and has a straight, clear, region of southwestern Oregon and northwestern California. It wide variety of soils in the mountains, cylindrical bole free of branches for much of occurs chiefly in Coos and Curry Counties in Oregon, and in Del usually a mixture with ponderosa pine, Mammoth trees; 200-300’ tall and 10-20’ in its length. Found on moist sandy and gravelly Norte and Humboldt counties in California. It is found in the coast Douglas-fir, white fir, omcemse-cedar, diameter. Young trees have conical crowns often soils, in the dunes near the coast, coastal ranges and Siskiyou mountains; it occurs in small areas in western and other conifers, never in pure stands. to the ground: older trees have irregular, broken swamps, and northern bogs, and in the moun- Lane and Douglas Counties, Oregon and in the Trinity Mountains Ranges from Santiam Pass in the north-central crowns. Base of tree is often buttressed and tains at middle and higher elevations. Ranges and on Mt. Shasta in California. The range forms a narrow strip 10 Cascade Mountains in Oregon, southward through fire scarred. Occur naturally only in the Sierra from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Coast, to 40 miles wide. Elevational range: sea level to 5,000 feet. the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California and Nevada Mountains of central California (Placer to and from the Yukon and southeastern Alaska southward western Nevada, and into norther Baja California. Tulare counties); middle to high elevations: deep, into northern Baja California; also in the Black Hills. Elevational Elevational range: 2,000 to 9,000 feet. moist, well-drained sandy and gravelly soils. Range range: sea level to 11,500 feet. spotty. Elevation: 5000’ - 8500’. Common and widely planted ornamental. Shasta Red Fir - Abies magnifica v. shastensis Western Redcedar - Big Leaf Maple – Acer Macrophyllum OREGON DEPT. OF FORESTRY D.L. PHIPPS FOREST NURSERY A tree to 150’ tall amd 2 1/2’ to 5’ in diameter. The Large trees 150’ to 200’ high, and 3’ to 10’ in diameter; with an open A tree 40’ to 100’ tall and 2’ to 4’ in diameter; “silver tipp” Christmas tree. Needles grow vertically 2424 WELLS RD. - ELKTON, OR 97436 pyramidal crown of pendulous, frond-like when growing in the open usually branches with- “Serving landowners since 1957” on stately, open branches. lateral branchlets; on large trees the base is in the first 15 feet into several large branches, fluted and forming dense, round, spreading crown; but in a Intermediate tolerance. Grows best on moist, well- swell-butted. Found on moist sites along dense stand, may be a tall, straight tree. Moist drained soils in subalpine situations. river bottoms, flats and benches, and mountain well-drined soil; from western British Columbia slopes. Ranges from southeastern Alaska south through western Washington and Oregon southward to northwestern California, also north- to southern California. Elevational range: sea “Reforestation” eastern Washington, northern Idaho, and western level to 5,500 feet. Montana. Elevational range: sea level to 4,000 feet in the Pacific Northwest; 1,500 to 7,000 feet in Sitka Spruce - Piccea sitchensis the Inland Empire. Largest of the spruces. 125’ to 180’ tall, and 3’ to 5’ in diameter, with an open crown of CONIFERS somewhat pendulous branchlets; bases of very large trees frequently buttressed. Moist, well- & drained sites along the coast, seldom more Western Red Alder - Western Larch - Alnus ruba than 50 miles from the Pacific Ocean and usu- Latrix occidentalis HARDWOODS ally much less. Ranges from southern south- A tree 30’ to 120’ tall and 1’ to 3’ in diameter; eastern Alaska southward along the coast to A large tree 100’ - 180’ tall, and 3’ - 4’ in with a fairly straight bole and moderately open, northern California. Elevational range: sea diameter; with soft, feathery foliage borne broadly pyramidal or dome-shaped crown.
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