Picea pungens

Pinaceae Picea pungens Engelm.

Etymology
Picea refers to the classical names for spruces.
pungens refers to ‘pungent’; indicating the sharp nature of its needles.

Colloquial Name
Blue spruce, Colorado spruce

Distribution

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TDWG Codes
7, 73, COL, IDA, MNT, WYO, 76, ARI, UTA, 77, NWM

Habitat
The natural habitats for Picea pungens are temperate forests. The natural elevation is unknown. There are no conifers associated with Picea pungens that are known of.

USDA Hardiness zone – 3
Picea pungens is hardy to USDA Zone 3 (Bannister & Neuner, 2001), meaning its frost tolerance lies somewhere in the range of -40C (-40F) to -34.4C (-30F).

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

IUCN Category – LC
According to the IUCN Red List, Picea pungens 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 pungens is Subsect. Pungentes. The coordinate taxa for Picea pungens are therefore:

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

Cultivars
‘Adam Tuczyński’, ‘Albovariegata’, ‘Arcuata’, ‘Argentea’, ‘Atroviridis’, ‘Aubie’s Spreader’, ‘Aurea’, ‘Baby Blueyes’, ‘Bailey’s Variegated’, ‘Bakeri’, ‘Barabits Blue’, ‘Barabits Martin’, ‘Bastion’, ‘Benno’, ‘Beskid’, ‘Białobok’, ‘Bizon Blue’, ‘Blaukissen’, ‘Blue Candlestick’, ‘Blue Diamond’, ‘Blue Horizon’, ‘Blue Mist’, ‘Blue Moon’, ‘Blue Pearl’, ‘Blue Stoplight’, ‘Blue Totem’, ‘Blue Trinket’, ‘Blue Waters’, ‘Bob’s Broom’, ‘Brady’, ‘Bronisze’, ‘Brynek’, ‘Buckwheat’, ‘Buffalo Bill Blue’, ‘Burl’, ‘Byczkowski’, ‘Charmer’, ‘Charming Chub’, ‘Chobalk’, ‘Christina’, CHRISTMAS BLUE, ‘Colonial Gold’, ‘Colorado Blue’, ‘Columnaris’, ‘Compacta’, ‘Continental’, ‘Coors’, ‘Copeland’, ‘Corbit’, ‘Delp’s Dwarf Blue’, ‘Dietz Prostrate’, ‘Domschke’, ‘Donehey’, ‘Donehey’s Golden’, ‘Donna’s Rainbow’, ‘Drayer’, ‘Early Cones’, ‘Early Gold’, ‘Edit’, ‘Edith’, ‘Egyptian Pyramid’, ‘Emerald Cushion’, ‘Endtz’, ‘Erich Frahm’, ‘Fat Albert’, ‘Fat Albert WB’, ‘Fat Mac’, ‘Ferrance Skirt’, ‘Filip’s Blue Compact’, ‘Flavescens’, ‘Florence’, ‘Formidable’, ‘Frieda’, ‘Fruhlingsgold’, ‘Fürst Bismarck’, ‘Gail’s Skyline’, ‘Gebelle’s Golden Spring’, ‘Gentry’s Gem’, ‘Dietz Prostrate’, ‘Glauca’, ‘Glauca Globosa’, ‘Glauca Nana’, ‘Glauca Pendula’, ‘Glauca Procumbens’, ‘Glauca Prostrata’, ‘Globe’, ‘Globosa’, ‘Gloria’, ‘Golden Feathers’, ‘Gold Find’, ‘Gondro’, ‘Gotelli’s Broom’, ‘Gotelli Prostrate’, ‘Green Globe’, ‘Green Goose’, ‘Green Spire’, ‘Green Spire WB’, ‘Haley’s Blue’, ‘Harbor Blue’, ‘Hartsel’, ‘Henry Fowler’, ‘Herman Naue’, ‘Hillside’, ‘Hobak Globus’, ‘Hoopsii’, ‘Horstmann’, ‘Hoto’, ‘Hulsdonk Mini’, ‘Hunnewelliana’, ‘Iseli Fastigiate’, ‘Iseli Foxtail’, ‘Iseli Gem’, ‘Jablone’, ‘Jean Iseli’, ‘J. James’, ‘Kanosha’, ‘Karina’, ‘Kleinood Luusbarg’, ‘Kluis’, ‘Kórnik 2000’, ‘Kosno’, ‘Koster’, ‘Kosteriana’, ‘Kubiczek’, ‘Kutchebo’, ‘La Junta’, ‘Linda’s Mad Dancer’, ‘Lucretia’, ‘Lundeby’s Dwarf’, ‘Lutea’, ‘Lutea AA’, ‘Maigold’, ‘Manabe Creamy Globe’, ‘Marble’, ‘Marciniec’, ‘Mecki’, ‘Mellow’, ‘Mesa Verde’, ‘Microphylla’, ‘Mission Bay’, ‘Mission Blue’, ‘Moerheim’, ‘Moerheim Seedling’, ‘Moll’, ‘Mom’, ‘Monstrum’, ‘Montana Ave.’, ‘Montgomery’, ‘Montgomery Sport’, ‘Morden’, ‘Morris Special’, ‘Mrs Cesarini’, ‘Mseno’, ‘Nidiformis Kalous’, ‘Nimetz’, ‘Oldenburg’, ‘Olo’, ‘Omega’, ‘Orphan Spring’, ‘Ossorio’s Dwarf’, ‘Otto Von Bismark’, ‘Pali’, ‘Pendula’, ‘Pin Cushion’, ‘Platte Best Blue’, ‘Porcupine’, ‘Prostrate Blue Mist’, ‘Pumila’, ‘Radatz’, ‘Regal Chub’, ‘R.H. Montgomery’, ‘Richardson’, ‘Rick’s White Tip’, ‘Rifle Blue’, ‘Rovelli’s Monument’, ‘Royal Knight’, ‘Rudy Kluis’, ‘Ruslyn’s Blue Moon’, ‘Saint Mary’s Broom’, ‘Salem’, ‘Schovenhorst’, ‘Schwartz’, ‘Scottie’, ‘Sea Blue’, ‘Sester Dwarf’, ‘Shigemori Variegated’, ‘Shiloh Weeping’, ‘Silver Falls’, ‘Smith’, ‘Snow Cushion’, ‘Snowkiss’, ‘Sonia’, ‘Spek’, ‘Split Rock’, ‘Spring Blast’, ‘Spring Ghost’, ‘Spring Yellow’, ‘St Mary’s Broom’, ‘Stanley Gold’, ‘Stanley’s Dwarf’, ‘Stanley’s Pigmy’, ‘Straw’, ‘Stromovka’, ‘Sunshine’, ‘Super Maixner’, ‘Sweet Roll’, ‘Swifty’, ‘Szpaczek’, ‘Tabuliformis’, ‘Taponus’, ‘Tara Mae’, ‘Teton Tower’, ‘The Blues’, ‘Thuem’, ‘Thume’, ‘Thomsen’, ‘Tiffin’, ‘Tillstrom Dwarf’, ‘Tomek’, ‘Victor’, ‘Viola’, ‘Virgata’, ‘Visseriana’, ‘Vuyk’, ‘Wacek’, ‘Waldbrunn’, ‘Walnut Glen’, ‘Waterfall’, ‘Wells Horizon’, ‘Wendy’, ‘Weslii’, ‘Wisconsin Cream’, ‘Woodstock’, ‘Yvette’