Picea glauca

• BOTANICAL NAME: Picea glauca
• COMMON NAME: White Spruce
• FAMILY: Pinaceae
• NATIVITY: Labrador to Alaska, Montana to New York.  High North.
• GROWTH HABIT:  40-60’
• HARDINESS:  USDA Zone 2 to 6
• OPTIMUM GROWING CONDITIONS:  Cool, alluvial soils, and full sun.  Found near stream banks and rich woods.
• SUCCESSIONAL STATUS:  Climax
• FACULTATIVE STATUS:  Facultative Upland
• LANDSCAPE VALUE:  Often used as little Christmas trees, heavily grown for paper production.
• FOLIAGE:   Evergreen; pale-blue to green in color.  
• BUDS:  Chestnut brown in color and scaled, keeled but not resinous.
• BARK:  Thin, ashy-brown and flaky.
• FRUIT:  Cones - cylindrical and blunt, pale brown when ripe.
• PESTS:  Trunk and root rot, otherwise none serious.