Klara's Plant Pick: Larch
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October 15, 2020
Roger Dey
Larch in the Blackfoot canyon stands out from the surrounding pines.
"The planted larch trees are burnished gold. What a wondrous forest they have become."
-Tomonari
The western larch, or Larix occidentalis, is also known as the western tamarack or hackmatack. Montana is home to a second species of larch, the Larix lyallii, also known as the subalpine larch, the alpine larch, and the woolly larch, but these usually grow at a higher altitude than the western lar...
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