Picea rubens

Tags: Conifer.

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.This species is also known as yellow spruce West Virginia spruce eastern spruce as well as he-balsam.The symbol for red spruce is PIRU

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binomial authority

Charles Sprague Sargent

class

Pinophyta

conservation status

LR/lc

conservation status system

iucn2.3

division

Pinophyta

family

Pinaceae

genus

Spruce

kingdom

Plant

order

Pinales

synonym

* Abies americana K.Koch nom. illeg., * Abies rubra (Du Roi) Poir., * Picea americana Suringar, * Picea australis Small, * Picea nigra var. rubra (Du Roi) Engelm., * Picea rubra (Du Roi) Link nom. illeg., * Pinus abies var. acutissima Münchh., * Pinus americana Gaertn. nom. illeg., * Pinus mariana var. rubra Du Roi, * Pinus rubra (Du Roi) D.Don nom. illeg.