| Scientific Name: | Picea mariana |
| Common Name: | black spruce |
| Family Name: | Pinaceae |
| Origin: | North America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 2: (-46 to -40 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Conifer |
| Mature Size: | 10 - 15m x 4 - 5m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Columnar, Pyramidal - narrowly |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Forestry |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Acidic, Bog |
| Leaves: | Needle-like, Spiraled, Leathery, Glabrous, Acicular, Entire |
| Flowers: | n/a (male cone), Mar |
| Fruit: | Cone (winged seeds), Brown, Aug-Sep, (Persistent) |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Branches short and drooping, frequently layering; twigs not pendent, rather slender, yellow-brown, pubescent; needles 0.6-1.5(-2)cm, 4-sided, rigid, pale blue-green, glaucous, bearing stomates on all surfaces, apex mostly blunt-tipped; seed cones 1.5-2.5(-4)cm long, scales fan-shaped, broadest near the irregularly toothed apex, 8-12 x 8-12mm, dark purple ripening purple-brown; seedlings with 3-5 cotyledons. <a href ='https://www.conifers.org/pi/Picea_mariana.php' target='_blank'>Conifers.org</a> | |