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Picea breweriana (Brewer Spruce or Weeping Spruce) is a species of spruce native to western North America, where it is one of the rarest in the continent, endemic to the Klamath Mountains of southwest Oregon and northwest California. It grows at moderately high altitudes, from 1000-2700 meter. It is a large evergreen coniferous tree growing to 20-40 meter tall, exceptionally 54 meter, and with a trunk diameter of up to 1.5 meter. The bark is thin and scaly, and purple-gray in color. The crown is very distinct, distinguished by level branches with vertically pendulous branchlets, each branch forming a 'curtain' of foliage. The pendulous foliage only develops when the tree grows to about 1.5-2 meter tall; young trees smaller than this (up to about 10-20 years old) are open-crowned with sparse, level branchlets. The shoots are orange-brown, with dense short fine hair about 0.2 millimeter long and very rough with pulvini 1-2 millimeter long.
Tree
25 - 177 ft Tall
Upright
Slow
Evergreen
Red
Summer
Full Sun, Partial Shade
Prefers sandy or loamy soils. Does not grow well in clay soils.
For propagating by seed: 1-3 mos. stratification (USDA Forest Service 1974).
2, 3*, 4*, 5, 6, 15, 16, 17
Moist slopes
Red Fir Forest
Butterflies and moths supported
0 confirmed and 24 likely
Orange Tortrix Moth
Argyrotaenia franciscana
Douglas-Fir Cone Moth
Barbara colfaxiana
White Triangle Tortrix
Clepsis persicana