Douglas Fir
Pseudotsuga menziesii
The towering backbone of Pacific Northwest forests and the region's most important timber tree, with soft needles and three-pronged bracts peeking from its cones. Fast-growing and long-lived. Young shoot tips flavor cooked foods, and the needles brew into a vitamin C-rich tea; the resin has been chewed as gum.
- Family
- Pinaceae
- Type
- tree
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 40–80 ft
- Spacing
- 12–20 ft apart
- Light
- part shade
- Soil moisture
- moist, wet
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral
- Bloom
- April
- Bloom colors
- red, yellow
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, mammals
- Caterpillar hosts
- ~76 butterfly & moth species
- Landscape uses
- specimen
- Native states
- AZ, CA, CO, ID, MT, NM, NV, NY, OR, PA, TX, UT, WA, WY