| Scientific Name: | Picea glauca |
| Common Name: | white spruce |
| Family Name: | Pinaceae |
| Origin: | North America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 2: (-46 to -40 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Conifer |
| Mature Size: | 22 - 30m x 4 - 5m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Pyramidal - narrowly, Pyramidal - widely |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Forestry |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Acidic |
| Leaves: | Needle-like, Spiraled, Leathery, Glabrous, Acicular, Entire |
| Flowers: | n/a (male cone), Yellow, Pink, Brown, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Cone (winged seeds), Brown, Sep-Oct, (Persistent) |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Needles 12-20(-25)mm long, 4-sided, blue-green above with several thin lines of stomata, and blue-white below with two broad bands of stomata; seed cones pendulous, slender, ovoid-cylindric, 3-6(-11)cm long x 1.5cm wide when closed and 2.5cm when open, scales thin and flexible, to 15mm long, with a smoothly rounded margin; seeds black, 2-3mm long, with a slender, pale brown wing 5-8mm long. <a href ='https://www.conifers.org/pi/Picea_glauca.php' target='_blank'>Conifers.org</a> | |