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Species
Least Concernwhite spruce
SPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassPinopsida
- OrderPinales
- FamilyPinaceae
Common Name: white spruce
via GBIF · IUCN · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 6,888
- With media
- 2,753
- Family
- Pinaceae
- Collections
- UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS
- Recorded in
- Canada, United States
Key facts
- Genome size
- 20 Gbp
- Sequenced organelle
- plastid and mitochondrion
- Organelle size
- 123 kbp and 5.93 Mbp
via Wikipedia infobox
~33 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Picea glauca, the white spruce, 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, Michigan, Upstate New York and Vermont, along with the mountainous and immediate coastal portions of New Hampshire and Maine, where temperatures are just barely cool and moist enough to support it. There is also an isolated population in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming. It is also known as Canadian spruce, skunk spruce, cat spruce, Black Hills spruce, western white spruce, Alberta white spruce, and Porsild spruce.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Picea glauca” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.