White Spruce

Picea glauca Pinaceae

Other names

Cat Spruce

Growth habit

Tree

Perennation

Long-lived polycarpic perennial

Native distribution

Labrador to AK South to MT, MN and NY

Location

Urban Tree Collection, Comstock Knoll and Rhododendron Collection, Conifer Slope

Source of plant

Klyn Nurseries, Saratoga Tree Nursery, Edmund Pfeifer, Edgewood Nursery, Schichtel's Nursery, Armintrout's West Michigan Farms Inc.

Description

Broadly pyramidal and dense in youth, becoming a tall, fairly narrow, dense spire, compact and regular with ascending branches.

USDA Hardiness Zone

2

Special characteristics

winter interest