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White Spruce Forestry Plugs

Will Ship Spring 2024

Plant Type: Evergreen Plug

Zones:  2-6

Soil Type:  Clay, Loamy & Sandy Soils

Site Selection: Full Sun, Partial Sun

Mature Height & Width:  50-70' Height and 15-20' Spread

Growth Rate:  Moderate/Fast - 12-24" or more per year once established

Moisture Requirements: Dry to average soils

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Plant Characteristics
DEER RESISTANT
HUNTING PLOT
CHRISTMAS TREE
GAME BIRDS
PYRAMIDAL SHAPE
$188.50
2-6

White Spruce Forestry Plugs

Picea glauca

The White Spruce is an evergreen with dense foliage and needles that are blue-green in color. This conifer grows faster than many other spruces.  From a distance, you may mistake this tree for a Blue Spruce with its similar color and shape. Commonly found in nature along streams and lakeshores, this spruce is more shade tolerant than most others. A great choice for heavier soils such as clay. Very popular as a Christmas tree, the White Spruce is also naturally deer resistant and provides high wildlife value.

Now you have access to the same trees planted by the giant timber companies, tree farms and many forestry agencies! The roots of our P1 size trees are surrounded by a plug of soil which is 3.3 cubic inches while our P2 trees have a plug of soil 4.9 cubic inches in volume. Our P3 Super Plug trees boast a soil plug volume of a whopping 15.3 cubic inches, over 3X the size of its P2 counterpart! The biomass of the trees also increases substantially with each plug size increment. This includes the soil plug size, root system and stem diameter.

Specs for the soil plug surrounding the roots:

P1 size | 1.1” Diameter | 3.74” Depth | 3.7 cubic inch soil plug

P2 size | 1.24” Diameter | 4.33” Depth | 4.9 cubic inch soil plug

P3 size Super Plug | 2” Diameter | 5.96” Depth | 15.3 cubic inch soil plug

The White Spruce is a long-lived conifer that exhibits medium to fast growth. Some of these trees live to be over 300 years old! Commonly grown for pulpwood and construction grade lumber. The tree has a pyramidal, columnar shape with blue-green needles and thin, gray, scaly bark. Its slender cones mature in one season, and drop to the ground in winter or the following spring. In its natural habitat, the White Spruce is commonly found growing along with Quaking Aspen, Paper Birch and Balsam Fir. This tree has beautiful year round color and is a fine specimen in the landscape.

Fun Fact:  Indigenous people in North America used the White Spruce's strong, pliable roots to make lacing for birch bark canoes. They also used the gum (a sticky substance that leaks through wounded bark) for waterproofing the birch bark seams.

Common uses for the White Spruce include:

  • Grown for pulpwood and construction lumber
  • Popular as a Christmas tree
  • Windbreaks and living snow fences
  • Very high wildlife value
  • Privacy screens
  • Planted for ornamental value
  • Evergreen for year round color

The White Spruce is high in wildlife value. Like other spruces, its dense foliage provides an ideal spot for nesting or roosting birds and provides good winter cover. Its seeds are an important food source for many types of finches, grouse, crossbills, nuthatches, grosbeaks as well as small rodents. Red Squirrels like to gather unopened cones and store them in large piles on the forest floor for future consumption. The White Spruce provides good winter cover for martens, fishers, voles and snowshoe hares. Excellent deer cover. 

Product Questions

Is this aka the black hills spruce?
Question by: Ryan Overleese on Dec 29, 2021, 10:13 PM
Black Hills Spruce is a specific cultivar of White Spruce. The botanical name of Black Hills Spruce is picea glauca densata, where as the White Spruce is picea glauca. The are similar but the difference is the Black Hills Spruce is a more compact variety growing to 40-60' the white spruce is mature height of 50-70'
Answer by: Chief River Nursery on Dec 30, 2021, 2:37 PM
Black Hills Spruce is a specific cultivar of White Spruce. The botanical name of Black Hills Spruce is picea glauca densata, where as the White Spruce is picea glauca. They are similar but the difference is the Black Hills Spruce is a more compact variety growing to 40-60' the white spruce is mature height of 50-70'
Answer by: Chief River Nursery on Dec 30, 2021, 2:37 PM