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Plant Habit: Shrub
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Wet
Wet Mesic
Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
Soil pH Preferences: Strongly acid (5.1 – 5.5)
Moderately acid (5.6 – 6.0)
Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Plant Height: 8 inches
Leaves: Glaucous
Unusual foliage color
Evergreen
Needled
Other: blue-green
Fruit: Other: female cones with papery or thin woody scales
Fruiting Time: Late summer or early fall
Fall
Late fall or early winter
Winter
Flowers: Other: soft male cones
Flower Time: Spring
Suitable Locations: Alpine Gardening
Uses: Windbreak or Hedge
Provides winter interest
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Rabbit Resistant
Propagation: Seeds: Will not come true from seed
Pollinators: Wind
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil
With thorns/spines/prickles/teeth
Monoecious
Goes Dormant
Parentage: Sport of: Fat Albert

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Common names
  • Blue Spruce
  • Spruce
  • Colorado Blue Spruce
  • Silver Spruce
Also sold as:
  • Fat Albert WB

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Location: j c raulston arboretum, ncsu,  raleigh, north carolina
Date: 2024-01-01
Location: West Jordan, Utah, United States
Date: 2020-10-05
Location: at home near Pittsburgh Pa.
Date: 2020-06-23
young plant of Picea pungens 'Blue Pearl'

Photo courtesy of Singing Tree Gardens
Location: West Jordan, Utah, United States
Date: 2021-09-14

Photo courtesy of Singing Tree Gardens Nursery
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