Puget Sound Native Tree
Botanical Garden
Puget Sound
Mountain Forests
The Puget Sound Native Tree Botanical Garden has mature specimens (as large as 6 feet in diameter) of the conifer trees native to the local lowlands. as shown in the TREES! portion of the website.
In addition, as shown on this page, the site has exemplars of all the conifers that grow naturally within 75 miles of our location, including the local Cascade Range and Olympic Mountains.
Western Larch needles
Engleman Spruce needles
Silver Fir
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Whitebark Pine
Mountain Hemlock
Alaska Cedar needles
Noble Fir
All pictures taken at the Botanical Garden except where noted
Subalpine Fir
Alaska Yellow Cedar
The image above is of an introduced Alaska Cedar on the left, and the indigenous Western Red Cedars on the right.
The native conifers that naturally occur within 75 miles of the Puget Sound Native Tree Botabical Garden are::
SubAlpine Fir;
Mountain Hemlock;
Yellow Alaska Cedar;
Nobile Fir;
Engleman Spruce;
Pacific Larch;
Silver Fir;
Whitebark Pine