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Dense red spruce forest in its native habitat at the summit of Spruce Knob, West Virginia. Red spruce grows at a slow to moderate rate, lives for 250 to 450+ years, and is very shade-tolerant when young. [12] It is often found in pure stands or forests mixed with eastern white pine, balsam fir, or black spruce.
Picea glehnii, the Sakhalin spruce [2] [3] or Glehn's spruce, is a species of conifer in the family Pinaceae. It was named after a Russian botanist , taxonomist , Sakhalin and Amur river regions explorer, geographer and hydrographer Peter von Glehn [ 4 ] (1835—1876), the person who was the first to describe this conifer.
The spruce–fir moss spider, which prefers mosses that thrive in the cool shade beneath the mature firs, is believed to be extirpated in all but a few places in North Carolina. The red spruce, likewise, which is easily damaged by high winds, depends on the sturdier Fraser firs for protection in the wind-blasted higher elevations.
Upper Red Creek in Dolly Sods. Dolly Sods is well known for its open expanses of sphagnum bog, heath shrubs and scattered and stunted red spruce—all creating impressions of areas much farther north. Many plant communities are indeed similar to those of sea-level eastern Canada. But the ecosystems within the Sods are remarkably varied.
Larix laricina, commonly known as the tamarack, [3] hackmatack, [3] eastern larch, [3] black larch, [3] red larch, [3] or American larch, [3] is a species of larch native to Canada, from eastern Yukon and Inuvik, Northwest Territories east to Newfoundland, and also south into the upper northeastern United States from Minnesota to Cranesville Swamp, West Virginia; there is also an isolated ...
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About 10,600 acres (43 km 2) of the spruce-fir forest are old-growth. [41] The spruce-fir forest consists primarily of two conifer species—red spruce (Picea rubens) and Fraser fir (Abies fraseri). The Fraser firs, which are native to southern Appalachia, once dominated elevations above 6,200 feet (1,900 m) in the Smokies.
Alcock's spruce Pinaceae (pine family) Picea asperata: dragon spruce Pinaceae (pine family) Picea aurantiaca: orange spruce Pinaceae (pine family) Picea brachytyla: Sargent's spruce Pinaceae (pine family) Picea breweriana: Brewer's spruce Pinaceae (pine family) 92 Picea chihuahuana: Chihuahua spruce Pinaceae (pine family) Picea crassifolia ...