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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

OverviewAI-generated

Picea glauca, commonly known as white spruce, is a species of plant in the family Pinaceae. It belongs to the genus Picea within the order Pinales and class Pinopsida. The species is classified under the phylum Tracheophyta and kingdom Plantae. Its IUCN conservation status is listed as Least Concern, a designation recorded in 2013.

Records of Picea glauca are documented in Canada and the United States. The University of Alberta Museums holds associated records for this taxon. The longest observed lifespan for the species is 668 years. Various databases track numerous observations and occurrences of this plant.

Synthesized by Vinony from 36 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, GBIF, iNaturalist, Gbif Occ, IUCN Red List, Plants of the World, iDigBio, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

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

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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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