Also called ◼︎ yellow spruce, West Virginia spruce, eastern spruce and he-balsam.  🎸︎ guitar makers often call the 🪵 wood Adirondack spruce.

Part of spruce  genus Picea in 🌲︎ cedar / fir / hemlock / larch / pine / spruce  family Pinaceae in 🌲︎ conifer  order Pinales.


Native to 🇨🇦 Canada south and Maritimes, and 🇺🇸 USA New England and 🗻︎ Appalachia.

🗺 Map (scroll down), 🗺 map (North America, Central America),  Adobe Acrobat Reader file 🗺 today + with climate change (eastern 🇺🇸 USA).

🏛🌲︎ Provincial tree of Canada's Nova Scotia.

Uses by native peoples
(Ethnobotany database)

Picea hosts caterpillars of 158 species
of butterflies and moths, in some areas.

Learn more about ◼︎ red spruce Picea rubens

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🏠︎ spruce  genus Picea