Douglas Fir Cone

I can understand it catching your eye! Right now we're seeing a lot of green spruce cones on the ground: the spruce squirrels are busy cutting them down and hurling them at the ground. Makes quite a BANG when it hits a roof after falling 100 feet.

Check out this webpage, near the bottom, for a Doug fir grown in Ohio. http://bobklips.com/earlyjune2008.html The young cone looks like yours, or at least more like yours than like the ones in Oregon. Or maybe I just haven't been observant enough...

I don't know what else it would be, and those 3-pronged tufts (we call them "mouse feet") are pretty characteristic of Douglas fir. Maybe someone else has an idea. I'll go look in my field guide again, too.

That is the oddest looking Doug. fir cone I've ever seen, and I grew up around them. Wonder if the hot, dry climate in Utah affects them? It almost looks like a species variant.