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In the southern Appalachians, it is usually limited to the mountains at elevations be-tween 2.000and 5,000 feet. In the western and southern extremes of its natural range, eastern hemlock is con-fined to moist cool valleys, north and east slopes, coves, and sides of ravines.
Eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis), also called Canada hemlock or hemlock spruce, is a slow-growing long-lived tree which unlike many trees grows well in shade. It may take 250 to 300 years to reach maturity and may live for 800 years or more.
Eastern hemlocks grow on 19 million acres throughout the eastern U.S. and are the dominant tree species on 2.3 million acres, ranging from the Southern Appalachians of Georgia and Alabama north to Maine and the Canadian Maritimes as well as west to Minnesota.
Tsuga canadensis, also known as eastern hemlock, [3] eastern hemlock-spruce, [4] or Canadian hemlock, and in the French-speaking regions of Canada as pruche du Canada, is a coniferous tree native to eastern North America.
8 mar 2024 · Tsuga canadensis (eastern hemlock) description. Ontario's northern forest, growing around a rock in Killarney Provincial Park: clockwise from top are Abies balsamea, Tsuga canadensis, Thuja occidentalis, Pinus resinosa, Pinus strobus, and Picea mariana.
19 paź 2022 · The eastern hemlock is found from Nova Scotia to eastern Minnesota, south to Maryland and Illinois, and along the Appalachian Mountains to Georgia and northern Alabama. Hemlock comprises less than 1% of the forest cover in the Park.
It is now present in 19 eastern US states from Georgia to southern Maine where it damages two native hemlock species, eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis (L.) Carr.) and Carolina hemlock...
