#230 Picea pungens 'Glauca' Common Names: Colorado blue spruce, blue spruce Family: Pinaceae (pine Family) Get link to this Profile or click for data record #230

Description
This tall, straight conifer grows over 80' tall and reaches diameters of 1'-2'. It has very stiff green and blue-green evergreen needles. Cultivars have been developed which accentuate a powder blue cast to the needles for ornamental purposes.

Location
Now widely planted for landscaping, the blue spruce is native to a fairly narrow geographic range in the central Rocky Mountains in the United States. In nature, it generally occurs along stream bottoms and on moist sites at 6,000' to 11,000' elevation.

Culture
Light: Tolerant of some shade.
Moisture: Average.
Hardiness: USDA Zones 4 to 5.
Propagation: Seedlings.

Usage
Blue spruce is most commonly used as an individual specimen tree but would be an attractive grove or windbreak tree.

Features
The striking blue colored foliage has made the blue spruce a popular landscape tree in the United States.

sl 08/17/97

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