Taxus brevifolia

Tags: Conifer.

Taxus brevifolia (Pacific yew or western yew) is a conifer native to the Pacific Northwest of North America. It ranges from southernmost Alaska south to central California mostly in the Pacific Coast Ranges but with isolated disjunct populations in southeast British Columbia (most notably occurring on Zuckerberg Island near Castlegar) and in south to central Idaho.

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class

Pinophyta

conservation status

LR/nt

conservation status system

IUCN2.3

division

Pinophyta

family

Taxaceae

genus

Taxus

kingdom

Plant

order

Pinales

synonym

*Taxus baccata subsp. brevifolia( (Nutt.) Pilg.), *Taxus baccata var. brevifolia (Nutt.) Koehne), *Taxus baccata var. canadensis( Benth.), *Taxus boursieri (Carrière), *Taxus brevifolia subsp. reptaneta (Spjut) Silba), *Taxus brevifolia var. polychaeta (Spjut), *Taxus brevifolia var. reptaneta (Spjut), *Taxus lindleyana (A. Murray bis), *Taxus occidentalis (Nutt.), *Taxus brevifolia subsp. polychaeta (Spjut) Silba )