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 hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA) Adelges tsugae
poison hemlock Conium maculatum Douglas fir Pseudotsuga menziesii eastern hemlock Tsuga canadensis western hemlock Tsuga heterophylla