White Spruce
Picea glauca

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.