| Scientific Name: | Abies concolor |
| Common Name: | silver fir, Colorado fir, white fir |
| Family Name: | Pinaceae |
| Origin: | Mexico, U.S. - northwest, U.S. - southwest |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Conifer |
| Mature Size: | > 30m x 7 - 10m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Stiffly upright |
| Form: | Columnar |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Specimen plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Acidic, Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Needle-like, Spiraled, Leathery, Glabrous, Glaucous, Distinctive smell, Acicular, Linear, Entire |
| Flowers: | n/a (male cone), Dark-red, Mar-Apr |
| Fruit: | Cone (winged seeds), Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Branched to base, those on upper half of tree tend to point upward, lower ones are horizontal or deflected downward; needles flat, soft, curved out and up on branches; most 4-6cm long x 2-3mm wide, glaucous, blue-green (new growth bluish); buds and young bark have resin blisters; seed cones erect, cylindric, 7-12cm long x 3-4.5cm wide, olive-green to purplish before maturing yellow-brown then darker brown, scales mostly 25-30mm long x 28-38mm wide, pubescent; seeds brown 8-12 x 3mm, wing about 1cm long; seedlings with 5-9 cotyledons. <a href ='https://www.conifers.org/pi/Abies_concolor.php target='_blank'>Conifer.org</a> | |