Larix laricina(Du Roi) K.Koch

tamarack

WFO wfo-0000443246 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Larix laricina, photographed by Mary Krieger
fig. a Mary Krieger, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 205023314
Larix laricina, photographed by Carter Dorscht
fig. b Carter Dorscht, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205503176
Larix laricina, photographed by Jackson Kusack
fig. c Jackson Kusack, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203673527
Larix laricina, photographed by Carol Ann Vermeer
fig. d Carol Ann Vermeer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205053149
Larix laricina, photographed by Carter Dorscht
fig. e Carter Dorscht, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202688356
Larix laricina, photographed by Liren Varghese
fig. f Liren Varghese, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204280359
Larix laricina, photographed by Tom Scavo
fig. g Tom Scavo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205742955
Larix laricina, photographed by Craig Martin
fig. h Craig Martin, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203348338

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Also published as 35 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Abies microcarpa (Lamb.) Lindl.
  • Abies pendula (Aiton) Lindl. & Gordon
  • Larix alaskensis W.Wight
  • Larix americana Michx.
  • Larix americana var. incurva Peck
  • Larix americana var. prolifera Loudon
  • Larix americana var. rubra Loudon
  • Larix dahurica var. americana (Michx.) Henkel & W.Hochst.
  • Larix europaea var. pendula (Aiton) J.Forbes
  • Larix fraseri Curtis ex Gordon
  • Larix intermedia (Du Roi) Lodd. ex J.Forbes
  • Larix laricina f. depressa Rousseau
  • Larix laricina f. laricina
  • Larix laricina f. lutea (Jaurès & Ferré) Ouden & Boom
  • Larix laricina f. parvistrobus (Jaurès & Ferré) Ouden & Boom
  • Larix laricina subsp. alaskensis (W.Wight) Silba
  • Larix laricina var. alaskensis (W.Wight) Raup
  • Larix laricina var. americana (Michx.) Lemmon
  • Larix laricina var. lutea Jaurès & Ferré
  • Larix laricina var. parvistrobus Jaurès & Ferré
  • Larix microcarpa (Lamb.) J.Forbes
  • Larix microcarpa (Lamb.) Mirb.
  • Larix pendula f. contorta Browicz & Bugala
  • Larix pendula var. repens A.Henry

and 11 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.