OregonFlora species comparison

smooth to fibrous and furrowed.

ovate, approximately 1.5 mm long, dark green, occasionally glaucous, with conspicuous pit-like abaxial gland; resin copious and sticky, sometimes glaucous.

needlelike; awl-like, or scale-like; simple, alternate or opposite, 2- or 4-ranked or in whorls of 3.

15–25 mm long.

maturing annually; solitary; terminal.

2–5 mm; light to medium brown;

wing less than width of the body.

1–many per scale, not winged.

to 1 m in diameter;

bark rough, furrowed, fibrous;

branchlets comb-like; to 1 mm in diameter.

globose, 1.5–2.5 cm long, brown to gray, not glaucous;

scales 6–8;

umbos present, 2–4 mm long.

woody or berry-like; terminal, scales of woody cones imbricate or peltate.