Larix laricina

Tamarack or American Larch is a medium conifer reaching around 25 m tall and is circumpolar in Canada, excluding the Pacific Northwest, being also found in the United States close to the Great Lakes. It typically grows in swamps and peat bogs in the wild.

• Deciduous needles are soft, to 3 cm long, borne singly on shoots and in dense whorls of 25 to 50 needles on side-shoots. Colour is blue-green turning to golden-yellow late in autumn and the needles falling off.
• Male flowers are yellow, drooping beneath the shoot; females are red, upright in separate clusters.
• Cones are quite small (1–2 cm long), egg-shaped, upright, brown, on short stocks, with smooth scales.
• Bark is thin, scaly reddish brown in color.