Colorado Spruce
- Botanical Name
- Picea pungens
- Hardiness
- Zones 3 to 7(8)
- Height
- 30 to 60 feet
- Width
- 10 to 20 feet
- Fruit
- 2-4" straw colored cones of scales with tattered margins
- Light
- Full sun
- Soil
- Moist, well drained, adaptable
- Planting & Care
- Transplant as balled and burlap in spring or fall
- Poor heat tolerance
- More drought tolerant than other Spruce
- Salt tolerant
- Varieties
- Picea pungens glauca - Colorado Blue Spruce, greater amount of blue-silver needles
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