Picea glauca

Pinaceae Picea glauca (Moench) Voss

Etymology
Picea refers to the classical names for spruces.
glauca refers to ‘blue-green’; indicating the colour of its foliage.

Colloquial Name
White spruce, Canadian spruce

Subordinate Taxa
There exist 2 subordinate taxa for Picea glauca:

Distribution

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TDWG Codes
7, 70, ASK, NUN, NWT, YUK, 71, ABT, BRC, MAN, SAS, 72, LAB, NBR, NFL, NFL-NE, NFL-SP, NSC, ONT, PEI, QUE, 73, MNT, 74, MIN, SDA, 75, MAI, MIC, NWH, NWY

Habitat
The natural habitats for Picea glauca are boreal forests. It is naturally found at an elevation of at least 1 up to 2100 metres. There are no conifers associated with Picea glauca that are known of.

USDA Hardiness zone – 2
Picea glauca is hardy to USDA Zone 2 (Bannister & Neuner, 2001), meaning its frost tolerance lies somewhere in the range of -45.6C (-50F) to -40C (-40F).

Species Continuity
The population trend for Picea glauca is stable. There are no known threats for Picea glauca.

IUCN Category – LC
According to the IUCN Red List, Picea glauca has been assigned the status of LC(Least Concern). This means that according to the Red List criteria, this species is not qualified as threatened.

Superordinate Taxa
The nearest superordinate taxon for Picea glauca is Series Picea. The coordinate taxa for Picea glauca are therefore:

Picea glauca is further placed under Pinoideae. Picea glauca is also placed under Pinaceae.

Cultivars
‘4th Hand’, ‘Achat’, ‘Alberta Blue’, ‘Alberta Globe’, ‘Albertiana Conica’, ‘Albertina Globe’, ‘Arching Blue’, ‘Arneson’s Blue Variegated’, ‘Arneson’s Sport’, ‘Aurea’, ‘Aureospicata’, ‘Baby’, ‘Beehive’, ‘Berggarten’, ‘Biesenthaler Frühling’, ‘Bill Archer’, ‘Blue Planet’, ‘Blue Star’, ‘Blue Wonder’, ‘Boring’, ‘Brevifolia’, ‘Burning Well’, ‘Cecilia’, ‘Coerulea’, ‘Compacta Žehušice’, ‘Compressa’, ‘Conica’, ‘Cupido’, ‘Cy’s Wonder’, DAISY’S WHITE, ‘Daisy’s White HB 3’, ‘Dendrofarma Gold’, ‘Densata’, ‘Dent’, ‘Ducharme’, ‘Eagle Rock’, ‘Echiniformis’, ‘Ed Hurle’, ‘Elegans Compacta’, ‘Elf’, ‘Ericoides’, ‘Fastigiata’, ‘Flattop Jones’, ‘Fort Ann’, ‘Girard Dwarf Pyramid’, ‘Globe’, ‘Globulosa’, ‘Gnom’, ‘Gnome’, ‘Goldilocks’, ‘Gold Tip’, ‘Haal’, ‘Heartland Metz’, ‘Hendersonii’, ‘Hexenbesen Uwe’, ‘Hillside’, ‘Hobbit’, ‘Holata’, ‘Hudsonii’, ‘Humpty Dumpty’, ‘Itty Bitty’, ‘Jacqueline Van Hulle’, ‘Jake Harrison’, ‘Jalako Gold’, ‘Jean’s Dilly’, ‘Josef Rys’, ‘Julian Potts Monstrosa’, ‘JW Daisy’s White’, ‘KBN Variegated’, ‘Ketch Harbor’, ‘Laurin’, ‘Lilliput’, ‘Litomyšl’, ‘Little Globe’, ‘Little Steve’, ‘Little Tim’, ‘Mac Golden’, ‘Mac’s Gold’, ‘Maigold’, ‘Manabe Goldmoon’, ‘Metzger’, ‘Millstream’, ‘Minima’, ‘Minitip’, ‘Monstrosa’, ‘Monstrosa Nana’, ‘Nana’, ‘Nana Compacta’, ‘Nana Glauca’, ‘North Star’, ‘Paleček’, ‘Pardubicky WB’, ‘Paul’s Dwarf’, ‘Pendula’, ‘Piccolo’, ‘Pixie’, ‘Pixie Dust’, ‘PR No. 1 Weeper’, ‘Pyramidalis Compacta’, ‘Rainbow’s End’, ‘Rita’, ‘Sanders Blue’, ‘Sanders Fastigiate’, ‘Short n Sweet’, ‘Skippack’, ‘Sleeping Giant WB’, ‘Spring Surprise’, ‘Spruce Lane’, ‘Starlight’, ‘Tiny’, ‘Tiny’s Mini’, ‘Tiny Temple’, ‘Variegatospicata’, ‘W.B.’, ‘Wellspire’, ‘West Danville’, ‘Wild Acres’, ‘Witches’ Broom’, ‘Yellow Spring’, ‘Yukon Blue’, ‘Žehušice’, ‘Zuckerhut’