Abies alba

Abies alba
	In Silesian Beskids, Poland
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Gymnospermae
Division:	Pinophyta
Class:	Pinopsida
Order:	Pinales
Family:	Pinaceae
Genus:	Abies
Species:	A. alba
Binomial name
	Abies alba; Mill.
	Distribution map: ✖ Native range and isolated population.; ▲ Introduced and naturalized (synanthropic) area and isolated population.
Synonyms
	List Abies argentea Chambray ; Abies baldensis (Zuccagni) Zucc. ex Nyman ; Abies candicans Fisch. ex Endl. ; Abies chlorocarpa Purk. ex Nyman ; Abies duplex Hormuz. ex Beissn. ; Abies metensis Gordon ; Abies miniata Knight ex Gordon ; Abies minor Gilib. ; Abies nobilis A.Dietr. ; Abies pardei Gaussen ; Abies rinzii K.Koch ; Abies taxifolia Duhamel ; Abies taxifolia Desf. ; Abies taxifolia Raf. ; Abies tenuirifolia Beissn. ; Abies vulgaris Poir. ; Peuce abies Rich. ; Picea kukunaria Wender. ; Picea metensis Gordon ; Picea pectinata (Lam.) Loudon ; Picea pyramidalis Gordon ; Picea rinzi Gordon ; Picea tenuifolia Beissn. ; Pinus baldensis Zuccagni ; Pinus heterophylla K.Koch ; Pinus lucida Salisb. ; Pinus pectinata Lam. ; Pinus picea L.;

Abies alba, the European silver fir or silver fir, is a fir native to the mountains of Europe, from the Pyrenees north to Normandy, east to the Alps and the Carpathians, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, and south to Italy, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Albania and northern Greece; it is also commonly grown on Christmas tree plantations in the North East region of North America spanning New England in the US to the Maritime provinces of Canada.

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