| White spruce | |
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| Mature white spruce in Fairbanks, Alaska | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Gymnospermae |
| Division: | Pinophyta |
| Class: | Pinopsida |
| Order: | Pinales |
| Family: | Pinaceae |
| Genus: | Picea |
| Species: | P. glauca
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| Binomial name | |
| Picea glauca (Moench) Voss
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List
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| NCBI genome ID | 3330 |
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| Ploidy | 2 |
| Genome size | 20 Gbp |
| Number of chromosomes | 12 |
| Year of completion | 2015 |
| Sequenced organelle | plastid and mitochondrion |
| Organelle size | 123 kbp and 5.93 Mbp |
| Year of completion | 2015 |
Picea glauca, the white spruce,[4] is a species of spruce native to the northern temperate and boreal forests in North America. Picea glauca is native from central Alaska all through the east, across western and southern/central Canada to the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland, and south to Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Upstate New York and Vermont, along with the mountainous and immediate coastal portions of New Hampshire and Maine, where temperatures are just barely cool and moist enough to support it. There is also an isolated population in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming.[5][6][1][7] It is also known as Canadian spruce, skunk spruce, cat spruce, Black Hills spruce, western white spruce, Alberta white spruce, and Porsild spruce.[8]
- ^ a b Farjon, A. (2013). "Picea glauca". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013: e.T42323A2972485. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T42323A2972485.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ NatureServe (2024). "Picea glauca". Arlington, Virginia. Retrieved 7 September 2024.
- ^ "Picea glauca". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew – via The Plant List. Note that this website has been superseded by World Flora Online
- ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Picea glauca". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
- ^ Farjon, A. (1990). Pinaceae. Drawings and Descriptions of the Genera. Koeltz Scientific Books. ISBN 3-87429-298-3.
- ^ Rushforth, K. (1987). Conifers. Helm. ISBN 0-7470-2801-X.
- ^ Earle, Christopher J., ed. (2018). "Picea glauca". The Gymnosperm Database.
- ^ Nienstaedt, Hans; Zasada, John C. (1990). "Picea glauca". In Burns, Russell M.; Honkala, Barbara H. (eds.). Conifers. Silvics of North America. Vol. 1. Washington, D.C.: United States Forest Service (USFS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 14 November 2010 – via Southern Research Station.