familyPinaceae
genusPicea

Picea rubens

Sargent

Silva 12: 33, plate 597. 1898.

Common names: Red spruce épinette rouge
IllustratedEndemic
Basionym: Picea rubra (DuRoi) Link 1831,
Synonyms: Picea australis Small Picea nigra var. rubra (DuRoi) Engelmann
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 2.

Trees to 40m; trunk to 1m diam.; crown narrowly conic. Bark gray-brown to reddish-brown. Branches horizontally spreading; twigs not pendent, rather stout, yellowbrown, densely pubescent to glabrate. Buds reddish-brown, 5–8mm, apex acute. Leaves 0.8–2.5 (–3) cm, 4-angled in cross-section, somewhat flexuous, yellow-green to dark green, not glaucous, bearing stomates on all surfaces, apex mostly acute to sharp-pointed. Seed-cones 2.3–4.5 (–5) cm; scales broadly fan-shaped, broadest near apex, 8–12 × 8–12mm, stiff, margin at apex entire to irregularly toothed. 2n =24.


Habitat: Upper montane to subalpine forests
Elevation: 0–2000m

Distribution

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St. Pierre and Miquelon, N.B., N.S., Ont., P.E.I., Que., Conn., Maine, Md., Mass., N.H., N.J., N.Y., N.C., Pa., Tenn., Vt., Va., W.Va.

Discussion

Throughout the Appalachians, trees of Picea rubens are dying, possibly as a consequence of environmental pollution. In eastern Canada this species hybridizes to a limited extent with P. mariana (A.G. Gordon 1976).

Red spruce (Picea rubens) is the provincial tree of Nova Scotia.

Lower Taxa

None.

"broadest" is not a number.

... more about "Picea rubens"
resinous +
entire +  and irregularly toothed +
8mm;12mm +
Ronald J. Taylor +
Sargent +
gray-brown;reddish-brown +
persistent +
decurrent +
Picea rubra +
reddish-brown +
conspicuous +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
Red spruce +  and épinette rouge +
4.5 cm45 mm <br />0.045 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
2.3 cm23 mm <br />0.023 m <br /> (4.5 cm45 mm <br />0.045 m <br />) +
St. Pierre and Miquelon +, N.B. +, N.S. +, Ont. +, P.E.I. +, Que. +, Conn. +, Maine +, Md. +, Mass. +, N.H. +, N.J. +, N.Y. +, N.C. +, Pa. +, Tenn. +, Vt. +, Va. +  and W.Va. +
0–2000m +
Upper montane to subalpine forests +
2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
yellow-green;dark green +
flexuous +
persisting +
not glaucous +
4-angled +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
not winged +  and 2-winged +
yellow +  and purple +
morgenstern1964a +
fibrous;woody +
arranged +  and overlapping +
persistent +
fan--shaped +
stalked +  and sessile +
grouped +  and solitary +
long-persistent +
ovoid +  and cylindric +
reduced;well-defined short +
Illustrated +  and Endemic +
Picea australis +  and Picea nigra var. rubra +
Picea rubens +
species +
decurrent +  and elongate +
yellowbrown +
not pendent +
densely pubescent +  and glabrate +
reduced +