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Larix laricina, commonly known as the tamarack, [3] hackmatack, [3] eastern larch, [3] black larch, [3] red larch, [3] or American larch, [3] is a species of larch native to Canada, from eastern Yukon and Inuvik, Northwest Territories east to Newfoundland, and also south into the upper northeastern United States from Minnesota to Cranesville Swamp, West Virginia; there is also an isolated ...
Larch forest in the North Cascades Range map of Larix laricina. Larix laricina (Du Roi) K. Koch – Tamarack or American larch. Parts of Alaska and throughout Canada and the northern United States from the eastern Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic shore. Larix lyallii Parl. – Subalpine larch. Mountains of northwest United States and southwest ...
Comment - "Referring to it as Tamarack Larch ... (etc)" - not so, as 'tamarack' does not mean the same as 'larch'. The converse is more relevant; in the Tilia platyphyllos instance, it would be like calling it a "Broad-leaved", instead of "Broad-leaved Lime": without the generic qualifier, 'tamarack' alone does not indicate what it is.
The bog contains a large variety of plants, including insect eating plants, tamarack trees, stands of blueberry bushes, and floating mats of sphagnum moss. Pinhook Bog is about 580 acres (2.3 km 2 ), a quarter of which is a floating mat of sphagnum peat moss.
The spider-tailed horned viper (Pseudocerastes urarachnoides) is a species of viper, a venomous snake, in the family Viperidae and genus Pseudocerastes. The genus is commonly known as "false-horned vipers". [3] The species is endemic to western Iran [4] and over the border region with Iraq.
The following is a list of tautonyms: zoological names of species consisting of two identical words (the generic name and the specific name have the same spelling). Such names are allowed in zoology, but not in botany, where the two parts of the name of a species must differ (though differences as small as one letter are permitted, as in cumin, Cuminum cyminum).
The reptile was treated at Pelican Harbor Seabird Station
Small larch poles are widely used for rustic fencing. [17] The wood is highly prized as firewood in the Pacific Northwest where it is often called "tamarack," although it is a different species than the tamarack larch. The wood burns with a sweet fragrance and a distinctive popping noise. [18] Western larch is used for the production of Venice ...