Picea rubens
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Picea rubens, commonly known as red spruce, is a species of spruce native to eastern North America, ranging from Nova Scotia to eastern Quebec and south-eastern Ontario, and south through the Adironda
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Foliage and cones
Dense red spruce forest in its native habitat at the summit of Spruce Knob, West Virginia
Red spruce cones from the Pisgah National Forest
The southern Appalachian spruce–fir forest is an ecoregion of the temperate coniferous forest biome, a type of montane coniferous forest that grows in the highest elevations in the southern Appalachia
Picea rubens
…stands or forests mixed with eastern white pine, balsam fir, or black spruce. Along with Fraser fir, red spruce is one of two primary tree types in the southern Appalachian spruce-fir forest, a distinct ecosystem found only in the highest elevations of the southern Appalachian Mountains. Its habitat is moist but well-drained sandy loam…
Spruce–fir on the slopes of Kuwohi
Orographic fog over the Black Mountains
Mosses dominate the spruce–fir understory near the summit of Mount Sterling in the Great Smoky Mountains.
View across the slopes of Roan Mountain showing the contrast between the dark green spruce–fir canopy (right) and the dull brown deciduous winter canopy (left)