black spruce
Picea mariana latin

The most common kind of tree there is called a Black spruce.

Black spruce, jack pine once again are the main trees of the area.

In the north woods, white and black spruce grow.

Black spruce is the most heavily used and the most common species in the area.

Travel through the black spruces in winter is an aesthetic, exciting experience.

It has also been recorded on Red and Black spruces.

The batter's eye featured fourteen young black spruce trees (each about six feet high) the first year.

Within this range they tend to black spruce and tamarack bogs.

Pen trials suggest black spruce is not actually preferred.

Black spruce forest occurs on some hills and ridges.

Black spruce are better adapted to fire conditions.

Low black spruce, willows, and grasses occur on the slightly elevated areas.

There are few scattered black spruce and larch in the surrounding tundra.

Over the decades some of the trees natural to Northern climates, like the black spruce and paper birch, have disappeared.

Patches of black spruce and larch stand in marshy valleys.

The upper sections of the river are in taiga, with black spruce being the dominant tree.

The smaller variety grows in swampy areas such as black spruce muskegs.

The terrain is characterized by black spruce and tends to be small and sparse.

The little pearly pool over in the field was mirroring black spruce trees against a red sunset.

It is closely related to Black Spruce, and hybrids between the two are frequent where their ranges meet.

The present secondary forest is a mix of pines, black spruce, sugar maple, and basswood.

Further south the tundra vegetation transitions to black spruce, aspen and poplar forest.

Fast-food chopsticks are often made from black spruce.

Black spruce, tamarack, and cedar are common on the wetter lowland areas in the forest.

Little clumps of dwarfed black spruce clung in the hollows here and there along the shore.

The larvae feed on Picea mariana.

Black spruce (Picea mariana) is usually tamarack's main associate in mixed stands on all sites.

This is the westernmost location for the range of Black Spruce, Picea mariana.

Picea mariana - Black Spruce.

Neocudoniella radicella, ectomycorrhizal with black spruce (Picea mariana)

Black spruce (Picea mariana) and tamarack (Larix laricina) are the predominant tree species.

C. Michael Hogan, Black Spruce: Picea mariana, GlobalTwitcher.com, ed.

This general locus within the Yukon River catchment is the approximate westernmost limit of the Black Spruce, Picea mariana.

The Seward Peninsula is the western-most limit of distribution for the Black spruce, Picea mariana, a dominant overstory species of the region.

The southern slopes of the Brooks Range have some cover of Black Spruce, 'Picea mariana', marking the northern limit of that tree.C.

Instances of the Krumholtz form of Black Spruce, Picea mariana, are found in the northern Canadian Boreal forests.

In northern and high altitude swamps of New England the dominant canopy species change to tamarack, black spruce (Picea mariana) and balsam fir (Abies balsamea).

This locale near the Seward Peninsula represents the near westernmost limit of the Black Spruce, Picea mariana, one of the most widespread conifers in northern North America.

This most commonly occurs in northern subarctic taiga forests of Black Spruce (Picea mariana) under which discontinuous permafrost or ice wedges have melted, causing trees to tilt at various angles.

In the black spruce (Picea mariana)-lichen woodlands of Alaska and Canada, the first stage of revegetation, which lasts from 1 to 20 years, is dominated by pioneer mosses such as fire moss.

Picea mariana is a slow-growing, small upright evergreen coniferous tree (rarely a shrub), having a straight trunk with little taper, a scruffy habit, and a narrow, pointed crown of short, compact, drooping branches with upturned tips.

The larvae feed on Picea glauca, Picea mariana, Picea rubens, Abies balsamea, Abies fraseri, Tsuga canadensis, Pinus and Larix species.

THE NORTH RUNNER then logging, only one species of tree grew, typical northland black spruce (Picea mariana), miles of them, which topped a rugged muskeg bottom that was almost impassable during the wet season.

Picea mariana (Black Spruce) is a species of spruce native to northern North America, from Newfoundland to Alaska, and south to northern New York, Minnesota and central British Columbia, in the biome known as taiga or boreal forest.

The dominant trees of these coastal forests are balsam fir Abies balsamea along with black spruce Picea mariana, white spruce Picea glauca on the shoreline, and paper birch Betula papyrifera and aspens where the forest is regrown following logging or other disturbance.