Picea glauca(Moench) Voss

white spruce

WFO wfo-0000482539 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Picea glauca, photographed by Julianne Ourom
fig. a Julianne Ourom, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 205871890
Picea glauca, photographed by jyoung2399
fig. b jyoung2399, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201391188
Picea glauca, photographed by F Quiec
fig. c F Quiec, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 205701055
Picea glauca, photographed by Pierre Cartier
fig. d Pierre Cartier, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197556627
Picea glauca, photographed by Suzanne Carriere
fig. e Suzanne Carriere, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193342138
Picea glauca, photographed by Todd Boland
fig. f Todd Boland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192212062
Picea glauca, photographed by Mary Krieger
fig. g Mary Krieger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194098821
Picea glauca, photographed by Syd Cannings
fig. h Syd Cannings, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192945666

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Also published as 45 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Abies alba (Aiton) Michx.
  • Abies alba var. caerulea J.Nelson
  • Abies alba var. nana Dicks. ex Loudon
  • Abies alba var. nana Jacques
  • Abies alba var. virescens (R.Hinterh. & J.Hinterh.) Nyman
  • Abies arctica A.Murray bis
  • Abies canadensis Mill.
  • Abies canadensis var. aurea J.Nelson
  • Abies coerulea Lodd. ex J.Forbes
  • Abies laxa (Münchh.) K.Koch
  • Abies rubra var. violacea Loudon
  • Abies virescens R.Hinterh. & J.Hinterh.
  • Picea acutissima Beissn.
  • Picea alba (Castigl.) Link
  • Picea alba var. foetida Penh.
  • Picea alba var. pendula Carrière
  • Picea canadensis (Mill.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.
  • Picea canadensis f. parva Vict.
  • Picea canadensis var. albertiana Rehder
  • Picea canadensis var. glauca (Moench) Sudw.
  • Picea canadensis var. pendula (Moench) C.K.Schneid.
  • Picea coerulea (Lodd. ex J.Forbes) Link
  • Picea glauca f. aurea (J.Nelson) Rehder
  • Picea glauca f. buxoides J.R.Schramm

and 21 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.