So far you have made the following choices...
It could be one of the species in the table below. Let's narrow our
choices by looking at how the needle is attached to the twig.
suction
cups
woody
pegs (sterigmata)
petioles
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Possible matches:
Abies amabilis - Pacific silver fir
Abies balsamea - balsam fir
Abies bracteata - bristlecone fir
Abies concolor - white fir
Abies fraseri - Fraser fir
Abies grandis - grand fir
Abies lasiocarpa - subalpine fir
Abies magnifica - California red fir
Abies nordmannia - Nordmann fir
Abies procera - noble fir
Araucaria heterophylla - Norfolk pine
Artemisia californica - coastal sagebrush
Baccharis pteronioides - yerba de pasmo
Baccharis sarothroides - desertbroom
Calocedrus decurrens - incense-cedar
Cassiope mertensiana - white mountain heather
Castela emoryi - crucifixion thorn
Cedrus atlantica - Atlas cedar
Cedrus deodara - Deodar cedar
Cedrus libani - cedar of Lebanon
Chamaecyparis lawsoniana - Port-Orford-cedar
Chamaecyparis obtusa - Hinoki falsecypress
Chamaecyparis pisifera - Sawara-cedar
Chamaecyparis thyoides - Atlantic white-cedar
Coleogyne ramosissima - blackbrush
Cryptomeria japonica - Japanese cryptomeria
Cunninghamia lanceolata - common Chinafir
Cupressus nootkatensis - Alaska yellow-cedar
Cytisus scoparius - Scotch broom
Diplacus puniceus - red bush monkeyflower
Ephedra spp. - Mormon-tea
Ericameria linearifolia - narrowleaf goldenbush
Ericameria nauseosa - gray rabbitbrush
Ericameria palmeri - Palmer's goldenbush
Larix decidua - European larch
Larix kaempferi - Japanese larch
Larix laricina - tamarack
Larix lyallii - subalpine larch
Larix occidentalis - western larch
Larix xmarschlinsii - Dunkeld larch
Metasequoia glyptostroboides - dawn redwood
Picea abies - Norway spruce
Picea breweriana - Brewer spruce
Picea chihuahuana - Chihuahua spruce
Picea engelmannii - Engelmann spruce
Picea glauca - white spruce
Picea mariana - black spruce
Picea omorika - Serbian spruce
Picea orientalis - Oriental spruce
Picea pungens - blue spruce
Picea rubens - red spruce
Picea sitchensis - Sitka spruce
Pinus monophylla - singleleaf pinyon
Pseudotsuga macrocarpa - bigcone Douglas-fir
Pseudotsuga menziesii - Douglas-fir
Pseudotsuga sinensis - Chinese Douglas-fir
Psilostrophe cooperi - paper-daisy
Sciadopitys verticillata - umbrella pine
Sequoia sempervirens - redwood
Taxodium ascendens - pondcypress
Taxodium distichum - baldcypress
Taxus baccata - English yew
Taxus brevifolia - Pacific yew
Taxus xmedia - Anglo-Jap yew
Thuja occidentalis - northern white-cedar
Thuja plicata - western redcedar
Torreya californica - California nutmeg
Torreya taxifolia - Florida torreya
Tsuga canadensis - eastern hemlock
Tsuga caroliniana - Carolina hemlock
Tsuga heterophylla - western hemlock
Tsuga mertensiana - mountain hemlock
xCupressocyparis leylandii - Leyland cypress
