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Also called 🇨🇦 Canadian hemlock and Pruche du Canada.
Part of hemlock genus Tsuga in 🌲︎ cedar / fir / hemlock / larch / pine / spruce family Pinaceae in 🌲︎ conifer order Pinales.
Native to 🇨🇦 Canada Great Lakes and Maritimes; and 🇺🇸 USA Great Lakes, New England and ⛰ Appalachia. 🗺 Map by county (🇺🇸 USA-48), 🗺 map (scroll down, on right), 🗺 map (North America, Central America), 🗺 today + with climate change (eastern 🇺🇸 USA). 🌲︎ State tree of Pennsylvania.
In this area:do not move firewood (ever),due to possible infestation by hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA) Adelges tsugae.
Uses by native peoples(Ethnobotany database) Its bark was used to make tannic acid, to process hides for leather goods. Some varieties[?] on No-Plant List by Seneca Nation of Indians. (page 65)
Tsuga hosts caterpillars of 110 speciesof butterflies and moths, in some areas.
Growth and regeneration of this plant can be severely limited by large populations of ◼︎🦌︎ white-tailed deer Odocoileus virginianus.
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🏠︎ cypress / juniper / redwood family Cupressaceae hemlock genus Tsuga hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA) Adelges tsugae