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Engelmann spruce

Picea engelmannii

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Summary ⁷

Picea engelmannii, with common names Engelmann spruce,white spruce,mountain spruce, or silver spruce, is a species of spruce native to western North America, from central British Columbia and southwest Alberta, southwest to northern California and southeast to Arizona and New Mexico; there are also two isolated populations in northern Mexico. It is mostly a high altitude mountain tree, growing at 900–3650 m (2,952-11,975 ft) altitude, rarely lower in the northwest of the range; in many areas it reaches...

Taxon biology ⁸

Pinaceae -- Pine family

Robert R. Alexander and Wayne D. Shepperd

Engelmann spruce is one of the seven species of spruce indigenous to the United States (62). Other common names are Columbian spruce, mountain spruce, white spruce, silver spruce, and pino real.

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(c) Mark Heard, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://www.flickr.com/photos/24657811@N00/4758392041
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(c) Jeremiah LaRocco, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Picea_engelmannii_Pikes_Peak_3.jpg
(c) Jeremiah LaRocco, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Picea_engelmannii_Pikes_Peak_4.jpg
(c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picea_engelmannii
(c) Unknown, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/22777239

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(c) Robert R. Alexander, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC)

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