Abies magnificaA.Murray bis

California Red FirCalifornia red firRed Fir

WFO wfo-0000511249 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Abies magnifica, photographed by Alexander Wentworth
fig. a Alexander Wentworth, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-08-30 / obs. 166052849
Abies magnifica, photographed by Diego Blanco
fig. b Diego Blanco, CC0 1.0 / obs. 154790212
Abies magnifica, photographed by Zac Peterson
fig. c Zac Peterson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 144457698
Abies magnifica, photographed by Alan Rockefeller
fig. d Alan Rockefeller, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 81012675
Abies magnifica, photographed by Alejandro Santillana
fig. e Alejandro Santillana, CC0 1.0 / obs. 59180509
Abies magnifica, photographed by Henggang Cui
fig. f Henggang Cui, CC0 1.0 / obs. 51402915
Abies magnifica, photographed by Henggang Cui
fig. g Henggang Cui, CC0 1.0 / obs. 51402995
Abies magnifica, photographed by Henggang Cui
fig. h Henggang Cui, CC0 1.0 / obs. 51334786

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Abies magnifica is native: California, Nevada, Oregon CaliforniaNevadaOregon
Native distribution of Abies magnifica, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
California CAL NORTHERN AMERICA
Nevada NEV
Oregon ORE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 18 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Abies amabilis var. magnifica (A.Murray bis) Lavallée
  • Abies campylocarpa A.Murray bis
  • Abies magnifica f. glauca (Beissn.) Rehder
  • Abies magnifica subsp. shastensis (Lemmon) Silba
  • Abies magnifica var. argentea Beissn.
  • Abies magnifica var. glauca Beissn.
  • Abies magnifica var. xanthocarpa Lemmon
  • Abies nobilis var. magnifica (A.Murray bis) Kellogg
  • Abies shastensis Lemmon
  • Abies shastensis (Lemmon) Lemmon
  • Abies shastensis var. xanthocarpa (Lemmon) Lemmon
  • Picea magnifica (A.Murray bis) Gordon
  • Picea nobilis var. magnifica (A.Murray bis) J.Nelson
  • Pinus campylocarpa (A.Murray bis) Voss
  • Pinus campylocarpa var. shastensis (Lemmon) Voss
  • Pinus magnifica (A.Murray bis) W.R.McNab
  • Pinus nobilis var. magnifica (A.Murray bis) Voss
  • Pseudotsuga magnifica (A.Murray bis) W.R.McNab

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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