*Picea pungens Engelmann. Common name: Blue Spruce, Colorado Blue Spruce. Habitat: Forestry plantations, also persistent or weakly spreading from horticultural use. Distribution: Native of the Rocky Mountains. Reported for MD by Kartesz (2022) but excluded by Knapp & Naczi (2021) as "not known outside of cultivation."
Origin/Endemic status: W. North America
Synonymy ⓘ: = Can, FNA2, K4, NE, NS, NY, Pa, POWO; = n/a — C, F, RAB, Tat. Basionym: Picea pungens Engelm. 1879
Links to other floras: = Picea pungens - FNA2
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Wetland Indicator Status:
- Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: FAC
- Great Plains: FAC
- Northcentral & Northeast: FACU
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Horticultural Information
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