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|accepted_name=Picea rubens
|accepted_authority=Sargent
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Silva
|place=12: 33, plate 597. 1898
|year=1898
}}
|common_names=Red spruce;épinette rouge
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Picea rubra
|authority=(DuRoi) Link
|publication_title=
|publication_place=1831,
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Picea australis
|authority=Small
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|name=Picea nigra var. rubra
|authority=(DuRoi) Engelmann
}}
|hierarchy=Pinaceae;Picea;Picea rubens
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Pinaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Picea]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Picea rubens]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees </b>to 40m; trunk to 1m diam.; crown narrowly conic. <b>Bark</b> gray-brown to reddish brown. <b>Branches</b> horizontally spreading; twigs not pendent, rather stout, yellow-brown, densely pubescent to glabrate. <b>Buds</b> reddish brown, 5–8mm, apex acute. <b>Leaves</b> 0.8–2.5(–3)cm, 4-angled in cross section, somewhat flexuous, yellow-green to dark green, not glaucous, bearing stomates on all surfaces, apex mostly acute to sharp-pointed. <b>Seed</b> cones 2.3–4.5(–5)cm; scales broadly fan-shaped, broadest near apex, 8–12 × 8–12mm, stiff, margin at apex entire to irregularly toothed. <b>2n</b> =24.</span><!--

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|habitat=Upper montane to subalpine forests
|elevation=0–2000m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Conn.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Pa.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.
|discussion=<p>Throughout the Appalachians, trees of <i>Picea rubens</i> are dying, possibly as a consequence of environmental pollution. In eastern Canada this species hybridizes to a limited extent with <i>P. mariana</i> (A.G. Gordon 1976).</p><!--
--><p>Red spruce (<i>Picea rubens</i>) is the provincial tree of Nova Scotia.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=morgenstern1964a
|text=Morgenstern, E.K. and J.L. Farrar. 1964. Introgressive Hybridization in Red Spruce and Black Spruce. [Toronto.] [Univ. Toronto, Fac. Forest., Techn. Rep. 4.]
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name=Picea rubens
|author=
|authority=Sargent
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Picea australis;Picea nigra var. rubra
|basionyms=Picea rubra
|family=Pinaceae
|habitat=Upper montane to subalpine forests
|elevation=0–2000m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Conn.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Pa.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.
|reference=morgenstern1964a
|publication title=Silva
|publication year=1898
|special status=
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|genus=Picea
|species=Picea rubens
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