Blue spruce, Picea pungens, is a conifer of the family Pinaceae native to the central Rocky Mountains of the United States, where it grows along streambanks and in moist mountain valleys typically between 1,800 and 3,000 meters elevation. Its stiff, sharply pointed needles carry a waxy bloom that gives the tree its characteristic silvery blue-gray color, a trait most pronounced in cultivated ornamental varieties, and it is the state tree of both Colorado and Utah, widely planted worldwide as a landscape and Christmas tree species.
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Picea, Taxa Source Wikidata: Blue Spruce
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1. Wikipedia: Blue Spruce
Wikipedialead sentence (diet), EntityId 316199
The blue spruce (Picea pungens), also commonly known as Colorado spruce or Colorado blue spruce, is a species of spruce tree native to North America in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.
Speciesbox infobox, conservation status parameter
status = LC
View the Source 2. GBIF Species API
3. Wikidata: Blue Spruce
Wikidata- Wikidata Q146025, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
Statements section, conservation status (P141)
IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): least concern.
- Wikidata Q146025 (P225 taxon name)
- Child Taxon Of: Picea, Wikidata P171 (parent taxon)
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