Spruce

Spruce

The spruce (Picea) is an evergreen with short, blue-green, waxy leaves called needles. The waxy coating on the needles helps evergreen trees conserve water during the very cold winters where they live, when soil water is frozen and not available for the trees to use. The spruce is a conifer, which means that it produces seed cones instead of flowers. It grows slowly and is easily killed by fire.

Saguaro
Creosote Bush
Flowering Dogwood
Bluestem Grasses

 

Lichen
Orchid
White Sage
Spruce

 

Artic Moss
Asters
Bear Berry
Brittle Bush

 

Cacao
Coffee Plant
Maple Tree
Redwood Tree

 

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White Birch Tree
Wild Oats
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