Picea breweriana | |
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Brewer spruce, Ridge above Bear Lake, Siskiyou Mountains, Ca. | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Gymnospermae |
Division: | Pinophyta |
Class: | Pinopsida |
Order: | Pinales |
Family: | Pinaceae |
Genus: | Picea |
Species: | P. breweriana
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Binomial name | |
Picea breweriana | |
Natural range of Picea breweriana | |
Close-up of natural range of Picea breweriana |
Picea breweriana, known as Brewer spruce,[2][3] Brewer's weeping spruce, or weeping spruce, is a species of spruce native to western North America, where it is one of the rarest on the continent. The specific epithet breweriana is in honor of the American botanist William Henry Brewer.[4][5]