Abies balsamea (L.) Mill.
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Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Family
Pinaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Spire-topped tree to 25 m, the gray bark eventually becoming scaly; twigs minutely hairy; lvs 12–25 mm; blunt or minutely notched, twisted at the base and tending to lie in one plane; cones 5–10 cm, with broadly rounded, appressed scales; bracts stipitate, the blade quadrate to rotund, mucronate to aristate, included or occasionally shortly exserted, but only rarely exceeding the subtended scale, the exserted part, when present, sometimes spreading, but not reflexed. Moist woods and swamps; Nf. and Lab. to the Mackenzie Valley, s. to N.Y., Mich., Minn., and in the mts. to W.Va. and n. Va.
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Common Names
balsam fir