This large coniferous tree has an upright greyish brown trunk with horizontal branching that forms a conical habit. It has blue green needle-like leaves that turn yellow during autumn and the male and female flowers appear during spring.

Hardiness zones 3 to 5

Larix laricinais naturally found from Alaska to Canada and extending to north-eastern USA growing in forests along the coast and on the adjoining mountains to an altitude of 1,200 m (3,936 feet).

It prefers a well drained moist soil that is tending acidic in an open sunny position and is intolerant of shade.

The American Larch is grown for its conical habit and its foliage. It is planted in parks and large gardens as a specimen tree or used in group plantings. It is suitable for coastal, mountainous and arctic regions establishing in 3 to 5 years and is long lived. This tree is also grown for its reddish hardwood that is used commercially for transmission polls, railway sleepers, fencing, shipbuilding and general construction work.ID 3031

Larix(LAH-riks) laricina(LAH-ree-SEE-nah)

Pinaceae(py-NAY-see-ee)
Larches, spruces, pines, firs, hemlocks and cedars