Buds, Leaves, and Global Warming Project Tree Species

This is a field guide for an education project at the Harvard Forest.

Black Spruce

Picea mariana (Black Spruce) is a species of spruce native to northern North America, from Newfoundland west to Alaska, and south to northern New York, Minnesota and central British Columbia. This area is also known as the taiga forest, in the Taiga and Boreal forests biome.

Norway Spruce

Norway Spruce (Picea abies) is a species of spruce native to Europe. It is also commonly referred to as the European Spruce.

Red Spruce

Picea rubens (red spruce) is a species of spruce native to eastern North America, ranging from eastern Quebec to Nova Scotia, and from New England south in the Adirondack Mountains and Appalachians to western North Carolina.

White Spruce

Picea glauca (white spruce) is a species of spruce native to boreal forests in the north of North America, from central Alaska east to Newfoundland, and south to northern Montana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, upstate New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine; there is also an isolated population in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming. It is also known as Canadian ...more ↓

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