Larix laricina (Du Roi) K.Koch

Trees to 20m; trunk to 0.
 diam.; crown narrow, branches sparse. Bark of young trees gray, smooth, becoming reddish brown and scaly, inner layer red-purple. Branches horizontal or slightly ascending; twigs orange-brown, glabrous. Buds dark red, subtended by ring of hairlike bracts, glabrous. Leaves of short shoots 1--
 × 0.5--0.8mm, 0.3--0.
 thick, keeled abaxially, rounded adaxially, pale blue-green; resin canals 10--20µm from margins. Seed cones 1--2 × 0.5--1cm, usually on curved stalks 2--5 × 2--2.5mm, sometimes sessile on long shoots; scales 10--30, margins entire, brown-strigose to-tomentose at base; bracts mucronate or tipped by awn to 1mm, hidden by mature scales, at first dark red to violet, later turning yellow-brown. Pollen 53--65µm diam. Seeds with bodies 2--3mm, wings 4--6mm. 2 n =24.

Lowland boreal and subarctic forests, often forming pure forests in the south of its range in swamps and wet soils, sometimes also on dry plateau or slopes in the north of its range; at elevations up to 1,220 metres.

The resin from the bark is chewed. The branches and needles are used to make tea.

Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs stratification.