Details for: WLP 223, Tsuga mertensiana (Bong.) Carrière, OWE-011


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Tsuga mertensiana (Bong.) Carrière
Top Name:
OWE-011
Origin:
Collected – Oregon, United States
Maintained:
National Arboretum
Received by NPGS:
21 Mar 2019
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Tree
Life Habit:
Tree
Availability
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Seed30 countWLP 223 2018w01 SD
 
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Tsuga mertensiana (Bong.) Carrière
Top Name:
OWE-011
Origin:
Collected – Oregon, United States
Maintained:
National Arboretum
Received by NPGS:
21 Mar 2019
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Tree
Life Habit:
Tree
Source History
Collected
01 September 2018.
Oregon, United States
Locality: Jackson County; ; Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest: Mount Ashland, north of National Forest Service Road 20A (300, Mt. Ashland Summit Road).
Coordinates: 42.0853, -122.7273 (Map it)
Elevation: 2126m.
Environment description: Open alpine coniferous forest and rocky scree; population restricted to northern slopes; open [full sun].
Associated species: Abies procera:Eriogonum umbellatum:Xerophyllum tenax
Aspect: ; Slope: 30 Degrees
Comment: Single- to multi-trunked tree (height 7.5 m, spread n/a, DBH n/a) with conical habit and drooping branch tips; bark gray-black, furrowed to plated; leaves bluish green, with piney scent; cone deep purple to tan, covered in resin.
Collector(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
OWE-011
Type: Collector identifier

NA 85625
Type: Site identifier
Group: NA
U.S. National Arboretum

Narrative
200 seeds collected from two individuals. Trees covered sulfur yellow lichen (Letharia vulpina - wolf lichen.) Species frequent, with uniform distribution.
Tsuga mertensiana (Bong.) Carrière
Genus:
Tsuga
Family:
Pinaceae
Nomen number:

40709
Place of publication:

Traité gén. conif. ed. 2:250. 1867
Verified:
05/15/1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Pinus mertensiana Bong.

Autonym(s)
Tsuga mertensiana (Bong.) Carrière f. mertensiana

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Abies mertensiana (Bong.) Lindl. & Gordon
Hesperopeuce mertensiana (Bong.) Rydb.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Abies hookeriana A. Murray bis
Abies pattoniana J. Jeffrey ex A. Murray bis
Tsuga mertensiana (Bong.) Carrière f. argentea (Beissn.) Rehder
Tsuga pattoniana (A. Murray bis) Engelm.

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishalpine hemlock  11961. Webster's third new international dictionary.
Englishblack hemlock  1Scoggan, H. J. 1978. The flora of Canada, 4 vol. 2:188.
Englishmountain hemlock  1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Frenchpruche de Patton  2FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
Swedishberghemlock  2Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Swedishblå berghemlock  2Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
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  • ACCNUMBERD: Changed NA 85625 to WLP 223. 09 Mar 2021.
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