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| name = ''Abies concolor''
| common_names = White Fir
| growth_habit = tree
| high = <!--- 1m (3 ft) -->
| wide = <!--- 65cm (25 inches) -->
| origin = <!--- Mexico, S America, S Europe, garden, etc -->
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| lifespan = perennial
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| sunset_zones = 1-9, 14-24, 34-37, 39, 41
| color = IndianRed
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Native to mountains of the West and Southwest, but can do well in Northwest and humid-summer parts of North and Northeast. Also does well in lower Midwest and in some lower-elevation parts of interior West. Reaches 50-70 feet in gardens. Bluish-green needles which are 1-2 inches long.
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A. concolor, Lindl. & Gord. (A. Lowidna, A. Murr. A. Parsonsiana, Hort., the Pacific form). White Fir. Fig. 61. Tree, 100-250 ft.: trunk 4-6 ft. in diam.: leaves elongated, stomatiferous on the upper surface, on fertile branches often falcate and thickened and keeled above: cones, oblong, gray-green, dark purple or bright canary-yellow, 3-5 in. long; bracts shorter than their scales. W. N. Amer. from S. Ore. to Low. Calif. and to Utah, S. Colo., New Mex., Ariz, and Sonora. —Of all fir trees, the Colorado form best withstands heat and drought; very hardy, grows rapidly, and the most desirable of the genus in the eastern states. The form from the Pacific coast is less hardy and less desirable in the E. as an ornamental tree. Seedlings of the Colorado form, with rather longer and more glaucous leaves, are found in nurseries as A. concolor violacea. }}
:''More information about this species can be found on the [[Abies|genus page]].''
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==Varieties==
* Abies concolor subsp. lowiana - Low's White Fir
* 'Candicans' is bluish white.
*Var. aurea. Young shoots golden yellow in May, afterward becoming silver-gray.{{SCH}}
*Var. brevifolia. Lvs. short and obtuse, twice as broad as in typical form. {{SCH}}
*Var. falcata. Lvs. sickle-shaped, curved upward. {{SCH}}
*Var. globosa. Plant spherical, with symmetrical small branches.{{SCH}}
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==References==
<!--- xxxxx *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381 -->
<!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 -->
<!--- xxxxx *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608 -->
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