Abies amabilis

Pacific silver fir is a North American fir in the pine or Pinaceae family and is native to the Pacific Northwest of North America, in the Pacific Coast Ranges and the Cascade Range from the extreme southeast of Alaska southward all the way to Oregon in the United States. It can reach a height of 80 m.

It often is the fir in the Hem-fir lumber sort in the manufacturing plants of the Pacific Northwest.

• Needles are 2–3 cm long and 2 mm wide, often widest in the middle, dark green above, and with two white bands of stomata below (thus displaying a more whitish underside), and slightly notched at the tip. Needles twist from around the twigs to point upward.
• Needles are attached to the twig by a base resembling a small suction cup (as opposed to spruce needles which are mounted on short stems).
• The species is monoecious; cones are 9–17 cm long and 4–6 cm broad, upright (unlike pendant spruce cones), dark purple before maturity; the scale bracts are short, and hidden in the closed cone. The winged seeds are released when the cones disintegrate at maturity about 6–7 months after pollination.
• Bark on younger trees is light grey, thin and covered with resin blisters; on older trees, it darkens and develops scales and furrows at the base.