Tamarack tree

Description:

Tamaracks are deciduous conifers. Bark is tight and flaky, pink, but under flaking bark it can appear reddish. The leaves are needle-like, short, light blue-green, turning bright yellow before they fall in the autumn. Needles are in clusters of 10-20 needles. Seed cones are the smallest of any larch, less than an inch.

Habitat:

Spotted near the Tamarac visitor center. Grows near swamps, bogs in wet to moist organic soils. Tamarack are very cold tolerant, and found at the Arctic tree line at the edge of the tundra.

Notes:

Commonly known as tamarack, eastern larch, hackmatack, American larch, black larch, red larch. The word tamarack is an Algonquian name for the species and means "wood used for snowshoes".