Flora of North America species comparison

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Picea breweriana

Brewer spruce, weeping spruce
Habit Trees to 40m; trunk to 1.5m diam., typically buttressed; crown conic.
Bark

gray to brown.
Branches

drooping;

twigs pendent, elongate, slender, gray-brown, finely pubescent.
Buds

gray-brown, 5–7mm, apex rounded.
Leaves

1.5–3cm, flattened or broadly triangular in cross section (abaxial surface rounded or slightly angular), rather rigid, abaxial surface dark green with stomatal bands absent, adaxial surface glaucous with conspicuous stomatal bands separated by slight ridge or angle, apex blunt (especially on older leaves).
Seed

cones 6.5–12cm;

scales fan-shaped, 15–20 × 15–20mm, rigid, margin at apex entire to slightly erose.

Picea breweriana
Habitat Montane to subalpine forests of the Siskiyou Mountains
Elevation 1000–2300m (3300–7500ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; OR
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Source FNA vol. 2.
Parent taxa Pinaceae > Picea
Sibling taxa
P. abies, P. engelmannii, P. glauca, P. mariana, P. pungens, P. rubens, P. sitchensis
Name authority S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 20: 378. (1885)
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