Larix laricina 'Girard Dwarf' is an irregularly spreading slow-growing selection of tamarck with many upright, twiggy shoots, soft pale green deciduous foliage and bright red new seed cones in the early spring. Annual rate of growth is around 5 inches (12 cm) per year; somewhat wider than tall, resulting in an irregular deciduous shrub 5 feet (1.2 m) tall and 6.5 (2 m) wide after 10 years in the landscape.
This cultivar originated as a witch's broom found in the early 1990s by Pete Girard and introduced to the nursery trade by his namesake nursery in Geneva, Ohio. It has been seen listed in the nursery trade as 'Girard's Witch's Broom' or as 'Girard Nana' which is illegitimate because it was named after 1959.
