Pseudotsuga menziesii

Pinaceae Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco

Etymology
Pseudotsuga refers to ‘almost Tsuga’; indicating a similarity to Tsuga species.
menziesii refers to the Scottish botanist A. Menzies.

Colloquial Name
Douglas-fir

Subordinate Taxa
There exist 2 subordinate taxa for Pseudotsuga menziesii:

Distribution

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TDWG Codes
7, 71, ABT, BRC, 73, COL, IDA, MNT, ORE, WAS, WYO, 76, ARI, CAL, NEV, UTA, 77, NWM, TEX, 79, MXC, MXC-PU, MXE, MXE-CO, MXE-CU, MXE-DU, MXE-HI, MXE-NL, MXE-SL, MXE-ZA, MXN, MXN-SO

Habitat
The natural habitats for Pseudotsuga menziesii are temperate forests. The natural elevation is unknown. There are no conifers associated with Pseudotsuga menziesii that are known of.

USDA Hardiness zone – 7
Pseudotsuga menziesii is hardy to USDA Zone 7 (Bannister & Neuner, 2001), meaning its frost tolerance lies somewhere in the range of -17.8C (0F) to -12.2C (10F).

Species Continuity
The population trend for Pseudotsuga menziesii is stable. There are ongoing threats for Pseudotsuga menziesii and they are listed as follows:

• 2 Overexploitation & Resource Use
  • 2.1 Logging & Wood Harvesting

IUCN Category – LC
According to the IUCN Red List, Pseudotsuga menziesii has been assigned the status of LC(Least Concern). This means that according to the Red List criteria, this species is not qualified as threatened.

Superordinate Taxa
The nearest superordinate taxon for Pseudotsuga menziesii is Pseudotsuga. The coordinate taxa for Pseudotsuga menziesii are therefore:

Pseudotsuga menziesii is further placed under Laricoideae. Pseudotsuga menziesii is also placed under Pinaceae.

Cultivars
‘Agija’, ‘Albospica’, ‘Anguina’, ‘Appressa’, ‘Argentea’, ‘Argentea Compacta’, ‘Argentea Densa’, ‘Argentea Nova’, ‘Argentea Pendula’, ‘Argenteovariegata’, ‘Arrowhead Blue’, ‘Astleyi’, ‘Astro Blue’, ‘Aurea’, ‘Aureo Marginata’, ‘Aureovariegata’, ‘Banff’, ‘Barabits Glauca’, ‘Barabits Pygmy’, ‘Barry Dwarf’, ‘Big Flats’, ‘Bilá Lhota’, ‘Blue’, ‘Blue Lullaby’, ‘Blue Wonder’, ‘Bonitzi’, ‘Boulder Blue’, ‘Brevibracteata’, ‘Brevifolia’, ‘Brookings’, ‘Brooks’, ‘Brooks Broom’, ‘Bystricka’, ‘Caesia’, ‘Caesia Erecta’, ‘Candida’, ‘Capulon’, ‘Capulon Broom’, ‘Carnefix Weeper’, ‘Cascade’, ‘Cedar Ridge Curly Weeper’, ‘Cedroides’, ‘Cezia Horák’, ‘Cheesemanii’, ‘Coenosium Gold’, ‘Coeur d’Alene’, ‘Compacta’, ‘Compacta Densa’, ‘Compacta Glauca’, ‘Compacta Viridis’, ‘Crispa’, ‘Cross Selection’, ‘Dandy Doug’, ‘De Bunn’, DEEP MOUNTAIN, ‘DeGroot’s Compact’, ‘Delbert’s Weeping’, ‘Dendrologie’, ‘Densa’, ‘Densa Compacta’, ‘Densiramea’, ‘Denudata’, ‘Don Smith’s Nana’, ‘Dumosa’, ‘Dusek’s WB’, ‘Dusek’s Weeper’, ‘Eagle River’, ‘Ed’s Dwarf’, ‘Eibernest’, ‘Elegans’, ‘Elf’, ‘Elongata’, ‘Emerald Falls’, EMERALD TWISTER, ‘Etan’, ‘Environmentals’, ‘Faberi’, ‘Fastigiata’, ‘Fastigiata Brevifolia’, ‘Fletcheri’, ‘Fletcheri Glauca’, ‘Fort Lewis’, ‘Fournier’s Greenspire’, ‘Foxy Fir’, ‘Fraser River’, ‘Fretsii’, ‘Garibaldi’, ‘Geijsteren’, ‘Gelbbunt’, ‘Glauca’, ‘Glauca Compacta’, ‘Glauca Elegans’, ‘Glauca Fastigiata’, ‘Glauca Nana’, ‘Glauca Pendula’, ‘Glauca Pendula Compacta’, ‘Glauca Pumila’, ‘Glauca Pyramidalis’, ‘Glenmore Blue’, ‘Globosa’, ‘Gold Beach’, ‘Gotelli’s Pendula’, ‘Gotelli’s Weeping’, ‘Grace’, ‘Graceful Grace’, ‘Greigiana’, ‘Hale’, ‘Happy Camper’, ‘Hayfork Gold’, ‘Helms’, ‘Hess Blue’, ‘Hess Select’, ‘Hess’ Select Blue’, ‘Hexenbesen Bonitzi’, ‘Hexenbesen Horstmann’, ‘Hillside Gold’, ‘Hillside Pride’, ‘Hillside Yellow’, ‘Hofman’, ‘Holmstrup’, ‘Holy Family’, ‘Hornecker’, ‘Hoyt Dwarf’, ‘Hrazdary’, ‘Hupp’s Weeping’, ‘Hvĕzela’, ‘Idaho Gem’, ‘Idaho Weeper’, ‘Ima Beaut’, ‘Iseli Weeping’, ‘Jackson’s WB’, ‘Jevany’, ‘John Lincoln’, ‘Joyce’, ‘Julie’, ‘Julie’s Jewel’, ‘Katie Jane’, ‘Kladrubce’, ‘Knaphill’, ‘Knížecí’, ‘Koch Broom’, ‘Kooteney Lake’, ‘Korina’s Kudo’, ‘Leenderheide’, ‘Leptophylla’, ‘Les Barres’, ‘Little Jamie’, ‘Little Jon’, ‘Loggerhead’, ‘Lohbrunner’, ‘Lombarts’, ‘Lombartsii’, ‘Lombartsii Glauca’, ‘Lombartsii Pendula’, ‘Longifolia’, ‘Lythgoe’, ‘Marieke’, ‘Marshall’, ‘Maruška’, ‘McKenzie’, ‘Mckenzie Pass’, ‘Mihalic’s Dwarf’, ‘Mile Hi’, ‘Mitsch Blue’, ‘Moerheimii’, ‘Monstrosa’, ‘Mossman’, ‘Mossman Pendula’, ‘Mossman Weeping’, ‘Mt Hood’, ‘Mt Hood Weeper’, ‘Mt Vernon Dwarf’, ‘Mucronata Compacta’, ‘Mucronata Nana Compacta’, ‘Nana’, ‘Nettleton’, ‘Nidiformis’, ‘Nýřany’, ‘Oak Hill’, ‘Oakridge’, ‘Oudemansii’, ‘Pamonia’, ‘Pannenhoef’, ‘Pannonia’, ‘Pannonia Mini’, ‘Park 2’, ‘Parkland Dwarf’, ‘Patterson’s W B’, ‘Peatie Cowboy’, ‘Pendula’, ‘Pendula Idaho’, ‘Peve Niers’, ‘Pila Ioda’, ‘Pine Grove Gold’, ‘Poncha’, ‘Powell Dhone’, ‘Powell Valley’, ‘Praq’, ‘Prostrata’, ‘Pumila’, ‘Pygmaea’, ‘Pyramidalis’, ‘Pyramidalis Brevifolia’, ‘Pyramidalis Compacta’, ‘Pyramidata’, ‘Quaintance’, ‘Radium’, ‘Revoluta’, ‘Rissen’, ‘Salmon Creek’, ‘Schwarzbar’, ‘Seattle Mountain’, ‘Select Blue’, ‘Serpentine’, ‘Shell Creek’, ‘Shorty’s Blue’, ‘Silver’, ‘Silver Plume’, ‘Skyline’, ‘Slavinii’, ‘Slavin’s Weeping’, ‘Sokol’, ‘Spaan’s Weeper’, ‘Sparsifolia’, ‘Stairii’, ‘Standishii’, ‘Standishiana’, ‘Standishiana Fastigiata’, ‘Stormy’, ‘Stricta’, ‘Suringarii’, ‘Sweet Sarah’, ‘Taranto’, ‘Tatranská Lomnica’, ‘Tempelhof’, ‘Tempelhof Compact’, ‘Thrift’, ‘Tingle’, ‘Torquis’, ‘Trout Lake’, ‘Trunkee Broom’, ‘Trunky’, ‘Uwe’s Golden’, ‘Vail’, ‘Valdenzia’, ‘Valdštejn’, ‘Van Ness’, ‘Variegata’, ‘Verdant’, ‘Verticillata Stricta’, ‘Vertrees WB’, ‘Viminalis’, ‘Viridis’, ‘Waggin Tails’, ‘Weep Willie’, ‘Whiskey Hill’, ‘White Mountain Weeping’, ‘Wicky’s Pinnacle’, ‘Wind Surfer’, ‘Woking’, ‘Wycoff’s Big Blue’, ‘Wycoff’s Dwarf’, ‘Wycoff’s Upright Broom’, ‘Yahoo’, ‘Young’s Broom’, ‘Yzeuriana’, ‘Zioga’s Dwarf’, ‘Zwergform Horstmann’