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|accepted_name=Picea sitchensis
|accepted_authority=(Bongard) Carrière
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|place=260. 1855
|year=1855
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|common_names=Sitka spruce;épinette de Sitka
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Pinus sitchensis
|authority=Bongard
|rank=species
|publication_title=Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg, Sér.
|publication_place=6, Sci. Math. 2: 164. 1832 (Aug.)
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Abies falcata
|authority=Rafinesque
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|name=Abies menziesii
|authority=(Douglas ex D. Don) Lindley
|rank=species
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|name=Picea falcata
|authority=(Rafinesque) Suringar
|rank=species
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|name=Picea menziesii
|authority=(Douglas ex D. Don) Carrière
|rank=species
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|name=Pinus menziesii
|authority=Douglas ex D. Don
|rank=species
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|hierarchy=Pinaceae;Picea;Picea sitchensis
|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 sitchensis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees </b>to 80m; trunk to 5m diam.; crown narrowly conic. <b>Bark</b> grayish brown to orange-brown. <b>Branches</b> somewhat drooping; twigs not pendent, rather stout, pinkish brown, glabrous. <b>Buds</b> reddish brown, 5–10mm, apex rounded. <b>Leaves</b> (1.2–)1.5–2.5(–3)cm, flattened or broadly triangular in cross section (abaxial surface rounded or slightly angular), rather rigid, blue-green to light yellow-green, abaxial surface darker green with stomatal bands very narrow or absent, adaxial surface glaucous with conspicuous stomatal bands separated by ridge, apex sharp-pointed. <b>Seed</b> cones 5–9(–10)cm; scales variable, elliptic to narrowly diamond-shaped, 15–22 × 12–16mm, rather rigid, margin at apex erose, apex extending 4–8mm beyond seed-wing impression. <b>2n</b> =24.</span><!--

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|habitat=Pacific coastal forests
|elevation=0–900m
|distribution=B.C.;Alaska;Calif.;Oreg.;Wash.
|discussion=<p><i>Picea sitchensis</i> intergrades extensively with <i>P. glauca</i> in the river inlets of north coastal British Columbia and coastal Alaska. The name P. × lutzii Little is applied to hybrids between the two species (R.Daubenmire 1968).</p><!--
--><p>Sitka spruce (<i>Picea sitchensis</i>) is the state tree of Alaska.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=daubenmire1968a
|text=Daubenmire,R. 1968. Some geographic variations in Picea sitchensis and their ecologic interpretation. Canad. J. Bot. 46: 787--798.
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name=Picea sitchensis
|authority=(Bongard) Carrière
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Abies falcata;Abies menziesii;Picea falcata;Picea menziesii;Pinus menziesii
|basionyms=Pinus sitchensis
|family=Pinaceae
|habitat=Pacific coastal forests
|elevation=0–900m
|distribution=B.C.;Alaska;Calif.;Oreg.;Wash.
|reference=daubenmire1968a
|publication title=
|publication year=1855
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|genus=Picea
|species=Picea sitchensis
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