| Scientific Name: | Picea pungens f. glauca |
| Common Name: | Colorado blue spruce, Colorado spruce |
| Family Name: | Pinaceae |
| Origin: | U.S. - northwest, U.S. - southwest |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Conifer |
| Mature Size: | 15 - 22m x 5 - 7m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Horizontal, Stiffly upright |
| Form: | Pyramidal - narrowly |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Alpine, Screening, Specimen plant, Winter interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Needle-like, Spiraled, Prickly, Glabrous, Acicular, Entire |
| Flowers: | n/a (male cone), Yellow, Purple, Red |
| Fruit: | Cone (winged seeds), Brown, Aug-Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Dense, pyramidal shape with horizontal lower branches; twigs not pendent, needles very prickly (apex spine-tipped), 4-sided, greyish-blue, most 2-3cm long; new growth is pale blue; seed cones cylindrical, most 6-10cm long x about 3cm wide, scales with thin tips and finely toothed wavy margins. <a href ='https://www.conifers.org/pi/Picea_pungens.php' target='_blank'>Conifers.org</a> | |