Picea rubens Sarg.
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Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Family
Pinaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Tree to 30 m, with a relatively broad and pyramidal or conic crown, the branches longer than in no. 2 [Picea mariana (Mill.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.] and tending to be horizontally spreading, with upturned tip; twigs pubescent as in no. 2, but the hairs more steeple-shaped; lvs 10–30 mm, sharply pointed, shiny yellow-green, not glaucous, those on the upper side forwardly ascending or erect, the others all laterally ascending-spreading or tending to be upcurved, those on the lower side twisted at the base; winter buds acute, chestnut-brown, the lowest scales pubescent and subulate; cones green or purplish-green before maturity, brown or reddish-brown when ripe, oblong-ovoid, 3–4.5 cm, mostly falling the first winter after maturity, more fragile than in no. 2, the cone-scales easily detached from the axis, but with firmer, more rounded, often entire margin. Rocky woods and hillsides, esp. in the mts.; Que. and Ont. to Pa. and N.J., and s. in the higher mts. to N.C. and Tenn. (P. australis; P. rubra) Hybridizes extensively with no. 2.
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Common Names
red spruce