Pinaceae
Red spruce
Picea rubens
- Family
- Pinaceae
- Genus
- Picea
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Common names
By language (30)
- Arabic
- تنوب أحمر, راتنج أحمر
- arz
- تنوب احمر
- atj
- Oskisk
- Azerbaijani
- Qırmızı küknar
- Belarusian
- Елка чырвоная
- Bulgarian
- Червен смърч
- Chinese
- 紅雲杉, 红云杉
- cr
- Oskisk
- Czech
- Smrk červený
- English
- Red spruce
- Estonian
- Punane kuusk
- Finnish
- Punakuusi
- French
- Épinette rouge, Epinette rouge
- German
- Amerikanische Rot-Fichte, Amerikanische Rotfichte
- Hebrew
- אשוחית אדומה
- Icelandic
- Brúngreni
- Indonesian
- Cemara merah
- Italian
- Peccio rosso
- Japanese
- アカトウヒ
- koi
- Гӧрд кӧз
- Latvian
- Sarkanā egle
- Lithuanian
- Raudonoji eglė
- Luxembourgish
- Amerikanesch Routfiicht
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Rødgran
- Polish
- Świerk czerwony
- Russian
- Ель красная, Красная ель
- Spanish
- Pícea roja
- Turkish
- Kırmızı ladin
- udm
- Горд кыз
- Vietnamese
- Vân sam đỏ
Synonyms
- Abies americana K.Koch
- Abies rubra (Du Roi) Poir.
- Picea americana (Gaertn.) Suringar
- Picea australis Small
- Picea nigra var. rubra (Du Roi) Engelm.
- Picea rubens f. rubens
- Picea rubens f. virgata Fernald & Weath.
- Picea rubra (Du Roi) Link
- Picea rubra f. virgata Rehder
- Picea rubra var. pendula Carrière
- Picea rubra var. pusilla Peck
- Picea rubra var. virgata (Rehder) Rehder
- Pinus abies var. acutissima Münchh.
- Pinus americana Gaertn.
- Pinus canadensis var. rubescens Watson
- Pinus mariana var. rubra Du Roi
- Pinus rubra (Du Roi) D.Don
- Pinus rubra var. violacea Endl.
Flowers
- Flower colour
- yellow (USDA PLANTS Database)
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Tree
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Canada: native, Lower 48 states: native, St. Pierre and Miquelon: native
Photos
Photo: Forest Wander from Cross Lanes, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: dgoldstern, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: dgoldstern, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: dgoldstern, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Jonas Kotarski, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
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Photo: Marylie Proulx, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.