It is smaller than Larix sibirica and it has thinner needles. It is from South and Central Europe, with particularly straight and vigorous shapes in the Sudetes Mounts and and in the steppe of Polony, Russia and Siberia where it grows together with the L. sibirica. When it is cultivated in southern areas, the leaves sprout too soon and they are damaged by the spring frost. It is a tree of fast growing, with annual sprouts of 1 meter or more up to 50 meters with 2 meters diameter. Its reddish-brown or beige wood is strong and lasting especially when it is used rough and it is useful for fences, rails, soils and farms, telegraph posts and mining holes spikes. Leaves have 2-4 cm length and they are green, the little winter branches are straw-colored or pink-beige and the cones are ovoid - oblong, thinning to the apex, of 2,5-4 cm length per 2-2,5 cm width, with rounded flakes whose apexes do not bend out. The bark of old trunks has fissures quite deep.