Red Spruce
Picea rubens
Red spruce is the fragrant spruce of cool Appalachian highlands and northern forests, shade-tolerant when young and slow to mature. A signature tree of high-elevation spruce-fir habitat.
- Family
- Pinaceae
- Type
- tree
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 60–90 ft
- Spacing
- 15–25 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade
- Soil moisture
- moist
- Soil pH
- acidic
- Bloom
- May, June
- Bloom colors
- yellow, brown, green
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, mammals, larval host
- Caterpillar hosts
- ~150 butterfly & moth species
- Landscape uses
- specimen
- Native states
- CT, MA, MD, ME, NC, NH, NJ, NY, PA, TN, VA, VT, WV