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Outstanding Features:
Attractive dark green evergreen foliage. Nice pyramidal form.
Description:
Height: 40-70'
Width: 20-30'
Hardiness Zone: 3b
Douglasfir is a large conifer that makes an excellent landscape plant for accent and grouping. It has a dense pyramidal form. Needles are 1-1 1/2" long and range in color from dark green to blue-green. Cones are readily distinguished from spruce and true firs by the papery bracts extending beyond the tips of the scales. Douglasfir is an important timber tree and is also grown for Christmas trees.
Requirements and Culture:
Fairly tolerant of a broad range of soil types. Needs ample moisture. Not tolerant of severe drought and hot, dry winds. Full sun.
Limitations:
There are two major varieties of Douglasfir
and it's important to use the most appropriate one. Pseudotsuga
menziesii var. glauca, native in the Rocky Mountain region, is winter
hardy and adaptable to the growing conditions in the north central
states. P. menziesii var. menziesii grows in the western Cascades
and does not tolerate the dry conditions and low winter temperatures
found in the north central states.
Photo Credit: 1 Bailey Nurseries, Inc.; 2 MLA.
Minnesota Power | University of Minnesota | Northern
States Power Company
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DOUGLASFIR Pseudotsuga menziesii