Pinaceae
Picea

Picea laxa (Münchh.) Sarg.

First published in Gard. & Forest 2: 496 (1890)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Alaska to N. U.S.A. It is a tree and grows primarily in the temperate biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, Idaho, Illinois, Labrador, Maine, Manitoba, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New York, Newfoundland, Northwest Territorie, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Prince Edward I., Québec, Saskatchewan, South Dakota, Vermont, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Yukon

Introduced into:

Austria, Denmark, Finland, Føroyar, Great Britain, Iceland, Norway, Poland, Sweden

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

An alternative taxonomy had been proposed by the following authorities:

  • Govaerts, R.H.A. (2011). World checklist of selected plant families published update Facilitated by the Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Picea glauca.]

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Farjon, A. (2001). World Checklist and Bibliography of Conifers, ed. 2: 1-309. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Farjon, A. (2010). A handbook of the world's Conifers 2: 533-1111. BRILL, Leiden, Boston.
  • Gilman, A.V. (2015). New flora of Vermont. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 110: 1-614.
  • Jonsell, B. (ed.) (2000). Flora Nordica 1: 1-344. The Bergius Foundaton.
  • Mirek, Z., Piękoś-Mirkowa, H., Zając, A. & Zając, M (2020). Vascular plants of Poland an annotated checklist: 1-526. W. Szafer institute of botany, Polish academy of sciences, Krakow, Poland.
  • Mohlenbrock, R.H. (2014). Vascular Flora of Illinois. A Field Guide, ed. 4: 1-536. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale.
  • Stace, C. (2019). New Flora of the British Isles ed. 4: 1-1266. C & M Floristics.
  • Tutin, T.G. & al. (eds.) (1993). Flora Europaea ed. 2, 1: 1-581. Cambridge University Press.
  • USDA, NRCS (2005- continuously updated). Natural Resources Conservation Services Plant Database http://plants.usda.gov/cgi_bin/topics.cgi?earl=checklist.html.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Oct 1, 2008 Breitung, A.J. [5114] Canada Picea glauca K000340511 No
Sep 1, 2008 McCalla, W.C. [2446] Canada Picea glauca K000340488 No
Sep 1, 2008 Schuette, J.H. [s.n.] United States Picea glauca K000340480 No
Sep 1, 2008 Eastwood, A. [605] Canada Picea glauca K000340490 No
Jun 1, 1998 Marie-Victorin, J.L.C.; Rolland-Germain, [?] [29257] Canada Picea glauca K000340487 No
Jun 1, 1998 Robinson, B.L.; Schrenk, H., von [s.n.] Canada Picea glauca K000340486 No
Jun 1, 1998 Fernald, M.L.; Wiegand, K.M. [2412] Canada Picea glauca K000340485 No
Jun 1, 1998 Marie-Victorin, J.L.C. [28456] Canada Picea glauca K000340477 No
Jun 1, 1998 Bourgeau, E. [s.n.] Canada Picea glauca K000340489 No
Jun 1, 1998 Gates, R.R.; Mellanby, K. [s.n.] Canada Picea glauca K000340481 No
Jun 1, 1998 Shear, C.L. [s.n.] United States Picea glauca K000340476 No
Jun 1, 1998 Eastwood, A. [19] Canada Picea glauca K000340492 No
Jun 1, 1998 Shear, C.L. [5] United States Picea glauca K000340483 No
Jun 1, 1998 Seemann, B.C. [1785] United States Picea glauca K000340484 No
Jun 1, 1998 Cody, W.J. [1911] Canada Picea glauca K000340478 No
Jun 1, 1998 Baldwin, W.K.W.; Breitung, A.J. [2493] Canada Picea glauca K000340491 No
Jun 1, 1998 Jack, J.G. [s.n.] United States Picea glauca K000340482 No
Jun 1, 1998 Perkins, W.W. [s.n.] United States Picea glauca K000340475 No
Jun 1, 1998 Cody, W.J.; Matte, J.M. [8476] Canada Picea glauca K000340479 No
Nee, M.H. [63788] United States Picea glauca K001569963 Yes
Cody, W.J.; Loan, C.C. [4335] Canada Picea glauca K000340514 No

Sources

  • EDGE Gymnosperms

    • EDGE of Existence (Gymnosperms)
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Living Collection Database

    • Common Names from Plants and People Africa http://www.plantsandpeopleafrica.com/

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images