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Hardy to USDA Zone 5 Native range from Alaska to northern California, east to
Montana.
Sun foliage differs in that sprays are more flexible and less planar, with smallest shoots
upturned and nearly round.
Seed cones are borne in the medial region of lateral spray branchlets, ellipsoid,
composed of 4 pairs of scales (2-3 fertile pairs) arranged in 4 ranks, 10-12 mm long and
about half as wide when dry and fully opened, each with a nearly terminal deltate
projection. Seeds 8-14 per cone, 4-7.5 mm (including wings), reddish brown.
Pollen cones 1-3 mm, borne in a cup formed by two leaf pairs at the tips of lateral spray
branchlets. Pollen cones are most abundant on sun foliage.
Habit: Conical to wide conical, formal, single leader, dense and full to the ground,
buttressed trunk, slightly pendulous tertiary branches