Picea pungensEngelm.

blue spruce

WFO wfo-0000482615 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Picea pungens, photographed by Jason Alexander
fig. a Jason Alexander, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-13 / obs. 202373000
Picea pungens, photographed by Carol Ann Vermeer
fig. b Carol Ann Vermeer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205053369
Picea pungens, photographed by Bob Walker
fig. c Bob Walker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181228389
Picea pungens, photographed by Caleb Catto
fig. d Caleb Catto, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170927897
Picea pungens, photographed by rdclark86
fig. e rdclark86, CC0 1.0 / obs. 153502653
Picea pungens, photographed by Will Kuhn
fig. f Will Kuhn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170125585
Picea pungens, photographed by Geoffrey Carter
fig. g Geoffrey Carter, CC0 1.0 / obs. 118601433
Picea pungens, photographed by Steven Bodzin
fig. h Steven Bodzin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 119593538

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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 27 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 commutata var. glauca Chargueraud
  • Abies menziesii Engelm.
  • Abies menziesii var. parryana André
  • Abies parlatorei Dallim. & A.B.Jacks.
  • Picea commutata Beissn.
  • Picea menziesii Engelm.
  • Picea menziesii var. parryana André
  • Picea parryana (André) Sarg.
  • Picea pungens f. argentea Branner
  • Picea pungens f. argentea Beissn.
  • Picea pungens f. coerulea Beissn.
  • Picea pungens f. compacta Rehder
  • Picea pungens f. glauca (Regel) Beissn.
  • Picea pungens f. glauca-pendula H.Kost. ex Beissn.
  • Picea pungens f. hunnewelliana (Hornibr.) Rehder
  • Picea pungens f. kosteriana (A.Henry) O.L.Lipa
  • Picea pungens f. pendens Rehder
  • Picea pungens f. perpendicularis Schwer.
  • Picea pungens f. viridis (Regel) O.L.Lipa
  • Picea pungens var. compacta (Rehder) Rehder
  • Picea pungens var. glauca Regel
  • Picea pungens var. hunnewelliana Hornibr.
  • Picea pungens var. kosteriana A.Henry
  • Picea pungens var. pendula Zederb.

and 3 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.