Photo: Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Trees and shrubs
Sitka spruce
Picea sitchensis
Sitka spruce is an evergreen tree that reaches about 200 feet at maturity, with a moderate growth rate. Up to about 250 feet tall. Often much shorter. In the wild it grows in moist to swampy coastal areas.
Water
Moderate
Light
Sun, Part shade, Shade
Hardiness
Zone 3
Mature height
200 ft
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| 2 gal | $9.80 | $8.82 | |
| 5 gal | $21.00 | $18.90 | |
| 15 gal | $79.00 | $71.10 |
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Growing guide
- Growth habit
- Evergreen Tree
- Mature size
- Up to about 250 feet tall. Often much shorter.
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Water needs
- Moderate; low drought tolerance once established; low tolerance of saturated soil
- Soil moisture
- Moist, Wet
- Light
- Sun, Part Shade, Shade
- Cold hardiness
- To -33°F (about USDA Zone 3)
- Bloom
- Yellow · Apr, May
- Grows in
- Moist to swampy coastal areas
- Native range
- Pacific Coast region from s. AK through w. B.C. to n.w. CA
Wildlife and uses
Provides food in form of large, brown seed cones.
Attracts: Birds
Susceptible, especially in the Pacific Northwest, to defoliation by red spider and to malformation by spruce gall.
Good for: Restoration, Riparian, Wildlife, Landscape
Sources
Hardiness zone is estimated from the USDA minimum temperature. Uses are suggested from USDA plant traits.
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