Kentucky Plant Atlas




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Pinaceae Picea abies
Picea abies (L.) Karst.
ALI: EU HAB: n/a, n/a, B, 3 ABU: n/a, n/a, 0
This "Norway spruce" is widely planted across Ky. but seedlings rarely establish; there are no accessed herbarium specimens that document naturalization. M reported: "a small population of variously sized trees" in ROWA (J. Thieret 1988 pers. comm.); and "several small trees in moist woodland" in the knobs of JEFF (Medley #19590). JC has observed one seedling on pine bark mulch in FAYE (at yard of R. Stauffer). There is more definite evidence of local naturalization in more northern states and at higher elevation in the Southern Appalachians (FNA2, K, W).