with needles that are …
___ flat, flexible or ◼︎♦ 4-sided [?], | stiff and sharp, and twig=rough where needles fall offspruce genus Picea or ◯ round with axial groves, segmented, tips have projections, looks like horse hair🇦🇺 Australian pine Casuarina equisetifolia :
and splay …
left + right + up + down + all angles or left + right a little more than up + down + all angles or left + right :
branchlets droop; buds=∧ pointed red-brownDouglas fir Pseudotsuga menziesii
needles=very long, 2½-6 cm (1-2½ in), and far apart; needle upper- and undersurface each have two white stripes◼︎ white fir Abies concolor
needle undersurface=whitish; northern Canada or USA; fragrantbalsam fir Abies balsamea needle undersurface=whitish; USA 🗻︎ AppalachiaFraser fir Abies fraseri
needle undersurface=whitish, needle lengths differ from each other or needle undersurface=not whitish, needles shorter toward end of twig :
western North Americawestern hemlock Tsuga heterophylla eastern North Americaeastern hemlock Tsuga canadensis
end of twigs shed with needles (look at base of tree)bald cypress Taxodium distichum
🏠︎ 🌲︎ conifer order Pinales cypress family Cupressaceae Douglas fir Pseudotsuga menziesii eastern hemlock Tsuga canadensis western hemlock Tsuga heterophylla
water hemlock Cicuta maculata poison hemlock Conium maculatum hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA) Adelges tsugae