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Picea glauca (Moench) Voss., the White Spruce, [4] is a species of spruce native to the northern temperate and boreal forests in Canada and United States, North America.. Picea glauca is native from central Alaska all through the east, across western and southern/central Canada to the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland, Quebec, Ontario and south to Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin ...
Picea (spruces) Low or none No (yes for P. glauca and P. mariana) 30–111 Medium (high for P. mariana) None (medium for P. glauca) Pinus (pines) Low or none Yes 50–150 Medium or low Low or none (medium for P. ponderosa) Pseudotsuga (Douglas firs) Low Yes 130 Medium Low Taxus (yews, yew family) None Yes 140 Low None Thuja (thuja cedars ...
The peg-like base of the needles, or pulvinus, in Norway spruce (Picea abies) Pulvini remain after the needles fall (white spruce, Picea glauca). Determining that a tree is a spruce is not difficult; evergreen needles that are more or less quadrangled, and especially the pulvinus, give it away.
Giant sequoia. Silvics of North America (1991), [1] a forest inventory compiled and published by the United States Forest Service, includes many conifers. [a] It superseded Silvics of Forest Trees of the United States (1965), which was the first extensive American tree inventory. [3]
Higher elevation subalpine slopes are home to Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii), subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa) and lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) while lower montane forests consist of lodgepole pine, quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), white spruce (Picea glauca) and Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir.
White spruce is a common name for several species of spruce and may refer to: . White spruce cones. Picea glauca, native to most of Canada and Alaska with limited populations in the northeastern United States
The taiga forests are mainly white spruce (Picea glauca), alaskan birch (Betula neoalaskana), balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera), and quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) in the warmer drier areas, and black spruce (Picea mariana), and american larch (Larix laricina) where it is marshier but the ecoregion also contains scrubby areas of dwarf birch (Betula nana) and riverbanks of willows ...
Range in Canada Global ... Picea engelmannii ... Picea glauca White spruce YK NT NU LB CA Secure BC AB SK MB ON QC NB PE NS NF Picea mariana