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This text currently parallels The Jepson Manual: Vascular Plants of California, Second Edition that is now available at the University of California Press.

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PICEA SPRUCE

Stem: crown conic; young branches appearing whorled, drooping or not; bark thin, scaly; twig with persistent, peg-like, spreading, < 2 mm leaf bases, glabrous or hairy; bud conic to ovoid, resinous.
Leaf: often crowded toward upper side of twigs, generally < 3 cm, sessile, ± 4-angled or flat, stiff, often strong-smelling when crushed.
Seed cone: conspicuously terminal or not, pendent, 5–12 cm, maturing 1st yr; stalk 0–1 cm; bract included, ± free from scale.
Seed: wing terminal.
2n=24.
34 species: n hemisphere. (Latin: pitch) Trunks, especially of Picea sitchensis, more flared or buttressed at base than other CA conifers.

Key to Picea

1. Lf ± 4-angled, with 2 obvious, ± white bands adaxially, abaxially ..... P. engelmannii

1' Lf ± flat, generally with 2 faint, ± white bands adaxially, also abaxially or not

2. Lf tip blunt; seed cone scale margin ± entire, bract < 1/4 scale ..... P. breweriana

2' Lf tip acute; seed cone scale margin ± jagged, bract > 1/2 scale ..... P. sitchensis

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