White River NF forest hts Hoffman & Alexander 1983 Routt NF forest hts Hoffman & Alexander 1980Īrapaho NF & forestland hts Hess & Wasser 1982 Uncompahgre NFs forest hts Komarkova & others 1988 Roosevelt NFs forest hts Hess & Alexander 1986 Peaks RNA meadow cts Rominger & Paulik 1983ĪZ, NM: - forest & woodland hts Layser & Schubert 1979Ĭibola NFs forest hts Fitzhugh & others 1987 Or dominance types (dts) are presented below:ĪK: - general veg. Plant associations (pas), ecosystem associations (eas), site types (sts) Part of the vegetation in habitat types (hts), community types (cts), Published classification schemes listing subalpine fir as a dominant Persistent, long-lived seral species in most subalpine fir habitat
It occurs as either a climax codominant or as a Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii) is usually associated
SUB ALPINE S SERIES
Subalpine fir series generally occupies cold, high elevation mountainįorests. įorests in which subalpine fir attains climax dominance or codominanceĪre widespread throughout the mountains of western North America. National Plant Data Team, Greensboro, NC. ĭistributions of corkbark fir (A) and the typical variety (B). Mexico, and in the high mountains of Arizona. Ranges in southwestern Colorado, northern, western, and southwestern New Subalpine fir and corkbark fir occur together in scattered mountain arizonica - from central Colorado to southwestern New Mexico, and lasiocarpa (typical variety) - almost the same as the species,īut not in central and southeastern Arizona.Ī. It occurs on both slopes of the Cascade MountainsĪs far south as southern Oregon. Oregon but does occur on Vancouver Island and in the Olympic Mountains Southern British Columbia or along the Coast Ranges of Washington and In the western portion of its range, subalpineįir does not occur along the western slope of the Coast Range in Mountainous areas from the Yukon interior near treeline and along theĬoast of southeastern Alaska south through western Alberta and BritishĬolumbia to southern Colorado and scattered mountain ranges of ArizonaĪnd New Mexico. Spanning more than 32 degrees of latitude. Subalpine fir is the mostly widely distributed fir in North America, ĭISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE SPECIES: Abies lasiocarpa Subalpine fir hybridizes with balsam fir (A. lasiocarpa, typical variety of subalpine fir arizonica, corkbark firĪbies lasiocarpa var. Two varieties are recognized based on morphologicalĪbies lasiocarpa var. Subalpine fir is widely distributed and exhibits geographic Scientific name of subalpine fir is Abies lasiocarpa (Hook.) Nutt. Nine species of Abies, including subalpineįir, are native to the United States. The genus Abies consists of about 40 species of evergreen trees found in
lasiocarpa (Hook.) BoivinĪbies balsamea var. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station,įire Sciences Laboratory (Producer). Public domain image by Ansel Adams from the series "Ansel Adams Photographs of National Parks and Monuments", compiled from 1941-1942. Botanical and Ecological Characteristics.Index of Species Information SPECIES: Abies lasiocarpa
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