Flora of North America species comparison

gray, distinctly platy, plates scaly.

gray to red-brown, shallowly fissured, with long, flat, irregular ridges.

nearly whorled, spreading-ascending;

twigs slender, pale red-brown, rusty puberulent and slightly glandular (rarely glabrous), aging purple-brown or gray, smooth.

contorted;

twigs pale red-brown, aging gray, puberulent, young branches resembling long bottlebrushes because of persistent leaves.

ellipsoid or cylindric, rust-colored, 0.4–0.5cm, slightly resinous.

ovoid-acuminate, pale red-brown, ca. 1cm, resinous.

5 per fascicle, spreading to ascending, persisting 3–4 years, 4–10cm × 0.7–1mm, straight, slightly twisted, pliant, blue-green, abaxial surface without evident stomatal lines, adaxial surfaces with evident stomatal lines, margins finely serrulate, apex broadly to narrowly acute;

sheath 1–1.5cm, shed early.

5 per fascicle, upcurved, persisting 10–17 years, (2–)3–4cm × 0.8–1mm, mostly connivent, deep blue-green, with drops and scales of resin, abaxial surface with strong, narrow median groove, adaxial surfaces conspicuously whitened by stomates, margins entire or distantly serrulate, apex conic-acute to conic-subulate;

sheath 0.5–1.5cm, scales soon recurving, shed early.

ellipsoid, 10–15mm, yellow.

ellipsoid, ca. 10mm, bluish to red.

cones maturing in 2 years, shedding seeds and falling soon thereafter, clustered, pendent, symmetric, lance-cylindric to ellipsoid-cylindric before opening, broadly lanceoloid to ellipsoid-cylindric when open, 10–25cm, creamy brown to yellowish, without purple or gray tints, resinous, stalks to 2cm;

umbo terminal, depressed.

cones maturing in 2 years, shedding seeds and falling soon thereafter, spreading, symmetric, lance-cylindric before opening, lance-ovoid to ovoid or cylindric when open, 6–11cm, purple to brown, nearly sessile;

apophyses much thickened;

umbo central, with triangular base, extended into slender, brittle prickle 4–10mm.

=24.

=24.