page_title: Abies concolor
section_title: Uses
hierarchical_section_title: Abies concolor / Uses
caption_attribution_description: English: Glass vial containing White Fir Essential Oil
context_page_description: Abies concolor, the white fir, is a coniferous tree in the pine family Pinaceae. This tree is native to the mountains of western North America from the southern Cascade range in Oregon, south throughout California and into the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir in northern Baja California; east through parts of southern Idaho, to Wyoming; and south throughout the Colorado Plateau and southern Rocky Mountains in Utah and Colorado, and into the isolated mountain ranges of southern Arizona, New Mexico and northern Mexico. White fir live over 300-years and naturally occur at an elevation between 900–3,400 m.
  It is popular as an ornamental landscaping tree and as a Christmas tree.
  The specific epithet concolor means "all one color".
context_section_description: White fir is a preferred construction species because of its nail-holding ability, lightness in weight, and resistance to split, twist, and pitch. It is straight-grained, non-resinous, fine-textured, stiff, and strong.
  White fir is popular as a Christmas tree and for Christmas decoration owing to its soft needles, generally excellent needle retention and abundance. It is often marketed as concolor or white fir.
caption: White fir (Abies concolor) essential oil in clear glass vial
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