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where … branchlets droop; needles=medium (12-24 mm) (½-1 in); cones=long (10-15 cm) (4-6 in)🇳🇴 Norway spruce Picea abies some branchlets droop, others splay horizontal; needles=long (20-30 mm) (¾-1¼ in), curving upward, blue-green, | very sharp◼︎ Colorado blue spruce Picea pungens or no branchlets droop :
needles=long (15-25 mm) (⅗-1 in); Pacific Northwest coastSitka spruce Picea sitchensis
needles=medium (>10 mm) (>½ in); buds and twigs=hairy◼︎ red spruce Picea rubens needles=medium (9-20 mm) (⅜-¾ in); buds and twigs=hairless◼︎ white spruce Picea glauca
needles=short (<10 mm) (<½ in), blunt-pointed; buds and twigs=hairy◼︎ black spruce Picea mariana
Part of 🌲︎ cedar / fir / hemlock / larch / pine / spruce family Pinaceae.
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Uses by native peoples(Ethnobotany database)
Picea hosts caterpillars of 158 speciesof butterflies and moths, in some areas.
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🏠︎ 🌲︎ conifer order Pinales 🌲︎ conifers with needles arranged singly hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA) Adelges tsugae
🇳🇴 Norway spruce Picea abies ◼︎ white spruce Picea glauca ◼︎ black spruce Picea mariana ◼︎ Colorado blue spruce Picea pungens ◼︎ red spruce Picea rubens Sitka spruce Picea sitchensis jack pine Pinus banksiana big-toothed aspen Populus grandidentata quaking aspen Populus tremuloides