Description
Picea glauca
DR
Habit: Cone-shaped
Mature Height: 40 to 60 feet
Mature Width: 10 to 20 feet
Soil: Acidic, Sandy, Well-drained
Light: Full Sun
Growth Rate: Moderate to Fast, about 13-24″/year
Landscape Value: Great as a specimen tree, Christmas tree, screen and windbreak. Provides important habitat and food for wildlife.
Hardy, compact evergreen tree with short, stiff, blue-green needles bearing sharp, pointy tips. Needles are aromatic when crushed. Mature needles develop a whitish bloom with age, hence the common name. Produces cylindrical, light brown cones up to 2.5 inches long. Tolerates drought and salt. Provides nesting sites and shelter for songbirds and small mammals, and food for many kinds of wildlife.
Origin: White spruce is not native to CT. It is primarily a boreal species occurring across Canada and Alaska, although it extends into northern New England, upstate New York and the upper Great Lakes states.
Note: This year we are offering potted conifer seedlings rather than plugs or bare-root seedlings. Potted seedlings have a larger root mass than plugs and do not require immediate planting.
Potted conifer seedling: pots are 3.5″ x 3.5″ x 5″ deep, seedlings are 8-18 ” tall
Photo credits:
Native Plant Trust (photos by Arthur Haines, Donald Cameron)
