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Picea glauca

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Picea glauca

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Also known as Picea canadensis, White spruce

species of plant

Species

Least Concern

white spruce

SPECIES

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassPinopsida
  4. OrderPinales
  5. FamilyPinaceae
Observations37,345
Observations recorded29,739

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.

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