Larix laricina
tamarack
Tamarack is one of only three native North American larch species and is the most common. This larch sheds its needles in the fall like baldcypress. Tamarack is the most cold-hardy of any native tree and has the strongest wood of all the conifers. Tamarack also has the widest range of all the North American conifers.
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Range Map
-The native range of tamarack, USFS.
Tamarack
Habitat and Culture
(silvics courtesy of Silvics Manual, USFS)
Wood
Technical Fact Sheet
(courtesy of Hardwoods of North America, Forest
Products Lab, USFS)
Fire
Effects On
(courtesy of U.S. Forest Service, Fire Effects)
From Virginia Tech
w/Photos
(Big List courtesy of VT Dendrology)
Species
Documentation and Data
(The BEST conifer data on the Internet, Gymnosperm
Database, Editor C. J. Earle)
North American Timber Types
(courtesy About Forestry)
The Great American
Coniferous Forest
(courtesy About Forestry)
Recent Champion: 62' height, 64' spread, 151" circumf., Coventry,
Connecticut
National Register of Big
Trees
Quick Stats
Common Names: Alaska larch,
alerce americano, American larch, Amerikaanse lariks, amerikansk lark, amerikansk
svart-gran, black larch, Eastern Canadian larch, eastern larch, epinette rouge,
hackmatack, hacmack, juniper, Kanada-lark, ka-neh-tens, meleze d'Amerique, red larch,
tamarac, tamarac meieze occidental
Habitat: Tamarack has one of the widest ranges of all North American conifers.
Description: a small- to medium-sized deciduous conifer extending from the Atlantic to central Alaska.
Uses: Pulp products (glassine paper), posts, poles, mine timbers, railroad ties, rough timber, fuelwood, boxes, crates and pails.
