Taxon: Picea glauca (Moench) Voss

Common names:

• Alberta white spruce   (Source: Man Conif [as Picea glauca var. albertiana]) – English
  
• American white spruce   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2 ) – English
  
• Black Hills spruce   (Source: F GPlains ) – English
  
• Canadian spruce   (Source: HerbSpices ) – English
  
• Porsild spruce   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• western white spruce   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• white spruce   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• épinette blanche   (Source: HerbSpices ) – French
  
• Schimmelfichte   (Source: Zander ed14 ) – German
  
• Weißfichte   (Source: HerbSpices ) – German
  
• picea glauca   (Source: Mult Glossary Trees ) – Italian
  
• vitgran   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Hortus 3)
  
• Materials: essential oils   (fide HerbSpices)
  
• Materials: wood   (fide AH 519)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  
• Social: religious/secular   (Christmas tree fide AH 519)
  

More:

View phytochemical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Subarctic America: Canada - Northwest Territory, Yukon Territory; United States - Alaska
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Maine, Michigan, New Hampshire [n.], New York [n.], Vermont [n.]
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Minnesota [n.], South Dakota [s.w.], Wisconsin
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Montana [n.w.], Wyoming [n.]

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature.
• Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds. 1986–1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Farjon, A. 1990. Pinaceae: Drawings and descriptions of the genera Abies, Cedrus, Pseudolarix, Keteleeria, Nothotsuga, Tsuga, Cathaya, Pseudotsuga, Larix and Picea. Regnum Veg. 121.
• International Seed Testing Association. 1971. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 2. Trees.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1978. Important forest trees of the United States.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
• Ouden, P. den & B. K. Boom. 1965. Manual of cultivated conifers. [= Picea glauca var. albertiana].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Silba, J. 1986. Encyclopaedia Coniferae. Phytologia Mem. 8:119.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. [introduced].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Picea glauca.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Picea glauca.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Picea glauca.

Synonyms:

• (=) Abies canadensis Mill.
  
• (=) Picea albertiana S. Br.
  
• (=) Picea canadensis (Mill.) Britton et al.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Picea glauca var. albertiana (S. Br.) Sarg.
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (=) Picea glauca f. aurea (J. Nelson) Rehder
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Picea glauca var. conica Rehder
  
• (=) Picea glauca var. densata L. H. Bailey
  
• (≡) Pinus glauca Moench (basionym)
  
• (=) Pinus laxa Ehrh.
  

Check other web resources for Picea glauca (Moench) Voss:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Gymnosperm Database of Christopher J. Earle
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Picea glauca cultivars
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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