White Spruce
Picea glauca
Picea glauca
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Foliage: Bluish-Green
Fall Foliage: Bluish-Green Fruit: Cones Habit/Form: Pyramidal Uses: Naturalizing, screen, windbreaks |
Zone Hardiness: 2
Plant Height: 40 - 60 ft Plant Width: 20 - 25 ft Light: Sun Growth Rate: Medium |
White spruce is one of the hardiest spruces. It is very tough and adaptable to many conditions. including wind, heat, cold, and drought. a conical pyramidal evergreen, with compact, regular branching. White Spruce is primarily valued in the landscape for its distinctively pyramidal habit of growth. It has bluish-green evergreen foliage which emerges light green in spring. The needles remain bluish-green throughout the winter. The smooth gray bark adds an interesting dimension to the landscape. The lower branches sweep the ground and whitish-green needles. Small cones are concentrated in the upper crown.
\e. Various kinds of wildlife, including deer, rabbits, and grouse, browse spruce foliage in winter. Native tree to New England.
\e. Various kinds of wildlife, including deer, rabbits, and grouse, browse spruce foliage in winter. Native tree to New England.
