COMMON NAME(S): Black Spruce 

LEAF: Needles mostly ¼” to 7/16” long, sometimes blue-green with a white powder. 

BARK: Dark reddish-brown, grayer with age; in small scales

FLOWER: Hairy buds. Cones only ¾” to 1 ¼” long, somewhat gray-brown, with scale edges rather ragged. 

GROWTH: Height 25’ – 30’; diameter 1’ to 2’. 

DISTRIBUTION: from Labrador, NF and N.S. west to Hudson Bay, and NW to the Mackenzie and Yukon Rivers, southward mostly through Me.  

LOCATION: South Park, Quincy, IL