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Picea rubens, commonly known as red spruce, is a species of spruce native to eastern North America, ranging from eastern Quebec and Nova Scotia, west to the Adirondack Mountains and south through New England along the Appalachians to western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee.
The woodlands of the area are rich in wildlife. In particular they are important habitat for migrating birds including wood warblers, vireos, and thrushes. The rivers of the ecoregion have the highest species richness of any freshwater ecosystem. In particular, there are a large number of endemic fish and shellfish species.
Spruce (Picea) Norway spruce (Picea abies) Black spruce (Picea mariana) Red spruce (Picea rubens) Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) White spruce (Picea glauca) Sugi (Cryptomeria japonica) White cedar Northern white cedar (Thuja occidentalis) Atlantic white cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides) Nootka cypress (Cupressus nootkatensis)
Picea rubens (red spruce) The straight-grained wood is lightweight but strong. It is the most popular choice in many stringed instruments for its resonance. Uses: timber; posts, pulpwood, terpenes, veneers. [40] [41] All eastern provinces
Lowland conifer forests occur on flats, low ridges, and knolls near bodies of water. They are dominated by balsam fir (Abies balsamea) and red spruce (Picea rubens), although white pine (Pinus strobus), red pine (Pinus resinosa) and jack pine (Pinus banksiana) and paper birch (Betula papyrifera) also occur. The ground is often stony with little ...
Picea glauca White spruce YK NT NU LB CA Secure BC AB SK MB ON QC NB PE NS NF Picea mariana Black spruce YK NT NU LB CA Secure BC AB SK MB ON QC NB PE NS NF Picea pungens Blue spruce YK NT NU LB CA Secure EX (W United States) BC AB SK MB ON QC NB PE NS NF Picea rubens Red spruce YK NT NU LB CA Secure BC AB SK MB ON QC NB PE NS NF Picea sitchensis
The New England-Acadian forests are a temperate broadleaf and mixed forest ecoregion in North America that includes a variety of habitats on the hills, mountains and plateaus of New England and New York State in the Northeastern United States, and Quebec and the Maritime Provinces of Eastern Canada.
The colder climate allows more hardwood trees to grow in the Gulf of St Lawrence than in most of this part of northeast North America. Trees of the region include eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis), balsam fir (Abies balsamea), American elm (Ulmus americana), black ash (Fraxinus nigra), eastern white pine (Pinus strobus), red maple (Acer rubrum), northern red oak (Quercus rubra), black spruce ...