Part of fir  genus Abies in 🌲︎ cedar / fir / hemlock / larch / pine / spruce  family Pinaceae.


Native to 🇺🇸 USA 🗻︎ Appalachia.

🌎︎ Map by county (🇺🇸 USA-48), 🌎︎ map (scroll down), 🌎︎ map (North America, Central America).  Adobe Acrobat Reader file

Uses by native peoples
(Ethnobotany database)   On No-Plant List by Seneca Nation of Indians.  Adobe Acrobat Reader file (page 60)

Abies hosts caterpillars of 55 species
of butterflies and moths, in some areas.

Learn more about Fraser fir Abies fraseri

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🏠︎ 🌲︎ conifers with needles arranged singly