Botanical Name: Tsuga mertensiana
Common Name: mountain hemlock
Family: Pinaceae
Distribution/Origin: West Coast
Leaf/Bud: evergreen, two ranked
Flower/Inflorescence: immature cones are purple, mature cones red/brown,thin flexible scales, upright
Fruit/Seed:
Stem/Bark:
Size: slow growing, small in the garden - larger in natural habitat, height 20-40m
Habit: upright
Form: pyramidal
Culture:
Landscape Use: tree, cold snowy alpine sites
Notes: not as large as heterophylla, more narrow/slender and less dense