in a swamp of five acres (E. B. Harger, Rhodora, II, 126).
through the northern tier of states to Minnesota.
spray stiff and rather slender; foliage dark bluish-green or glaucous.
branches, sometimes for many years.
=Winter Buds and Leaves.=--Buds scaly, ovate, pointed, reddish-brown.
tipped or mucronate, sessile on persistent, decurrent footstalks.
imbricated, broader than long, margin erose, rarely entire.
surface; margin rounded, uneven, eroded, bifid, or rarely entire.
branches dying out and the whole tree becoming scraggly and unsightly.
5. Branch with fertile flowers.
6. Cover-scale and ovuliferous scale, outer side.
7. Ovuliferous scale with ovules, inner side.
Picea rubens, Sarg. Picea nigra, var. rubra, Engelm.