Fraser Fir Native to Virginia Blue Ridge

You may or may not know this, I lived in Washington State (western wa) and thought all the fir trees were from there. When we moved to these Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia I learned better!

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Fraser Fir (Abies fraseri) is a species of fir native to the mountains of the eastern United States. It is closely related to Balsam Fir (Abies balsamea), of which it has occasionally been treated as a subspecies (as A. balsamea subsp. fraseri (Pursh) E.Murray) or a variety (as A. balsamea var. fraseri (Pursh) Spach.