Woody Plants Exam #3

Picea abies - Norway Spruce

zone 2

60’x30’

secondary growth is weepy, long cones, very green needles

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Picea abies ‘Nidiformis’ - Bird’s Nest Spruce

zone 2

6’x6’

lower growing, smaller needles, kinda poky

specimen for habit

Picea abies ‘Pendula’ - Weeping Norway Spruce

zone 2

10’x10’

has to be trained to be upright, very weepy

specimen for habit/focal point

Picea glauca - White Spruce

zone 2

60’x'20’

branches tend to arc upward, small cones

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Picea glauca ‘Conica’ - Dwarf Alberta Spruce

zone 4

12’x10’

you know this one! poky needles, can be shaped, conical

specimen for habit

Picea glauca ‘Pendula’ - Weeping White Spruce

zone 2

40’x4’

columnar weeping tree, very popular

specimen for habit, framing

Picea omorika - Serbian Spruce

zone 4

60’x25’

soft needles with striped colors, green on top, blue on bottom; Bruns Weeping

specimen for needles/habit

Picea pungens - Colorado Spruce

zone 2

60’x25’

90 degree branches, POKY

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Picea pungens var glauca - Colorado Blue Spruce

zone 2

60’x25’

POKY blue needles. you know this one

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Picea pungens ‘Fastigiata’ - Columnar Blue Spruce

zone 2

30’x10’

narrow version of the standard, blue needles

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Picea pungens ‘Glauca Prostrata’ - Creeping Blue Spruce

zone 2

1’x4’

creeping, blue needles

specimen for habit, rock garden

Picea pungens ‘Globosa’ - Globe Blue Spruce

zone 4

6’x6’

ball of blue on a stick

specimen for habit, rock garden

Picea pungens ‘Hoopsii’ - Hoopsii Blue Spruce

zone 2

25’x20’

super blue dude, very poky, has orange branches

specimen for color

Picea pungens ‘Montgomery’ - Montgomery Blue Spruce

zone 2

8’x7’

soft needles w/ rounded tips, very blue, shrubby form

specimen for color, rock gardens

Abies concolor - White Fir

zone 4

50’x30’

super long, soft, and flat needles

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Abies lasiocarpa - Subalpine Fir

zone 2

50’x15’

short, flat, soft needles, narrow habit

screen, naturalistic

Pseudotsuga menziesii - Douglas Fir

zone 4

60’x25’

flat, stripey needles, pointed buds

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Pinus aristata - Bristlecone Pine

zone 4

20’x20’

bottlebrush needles in 5s, white sap dots

rock garden, specimen for habit

Pinus bungeana - Lacebark Pine

zone 5

50’x30’

needles in 2s, exfoliating bark like london plane

rock garden, specimen for bark/habit

Pinus cembroides car edulis - Pinyon Pine

zone 5

20’x10’

dense growing pyramid shape, fragrant

Pinus contorta var latifolia - Lodgepole Pine

zone 3

80’x20’

needles in 2s twist and curl, lots of cones that just hang on

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Pinus flexilis - Limber Pine

zone 3

50’x30’

needles in 5s, can bend branches around w/o breaking; Vanderwolf’s Pyramid

specimen for habit

Pinus heldreichii - Bosnian Pine

zone 4

40’x15’

needles in 2s, squat and stiff needles

rock garden, specimen for habit

Pinus mugo - Mugo Pine

zone 2

2-15’x2-15’

tight and dense, needles in 2s; Slowmound

massing, rock garden

Pinus nigra - Austrian Pine

zone 4

60’x40’

stiff long needles with whitish buds, bark furrows are black

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Pinus ponderosa - Ponderosa Pine

zone 3

100’x30’

loooong needles, needles in 3s

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Pinus sylvestris - Scotch Pine

zone 3

60’x40’

needles in 2s, butterscotch colored bark

specimen for bark, screen

Pinus wallichiana - Himalayan Pine

zone 5

50’x20’

weeping needles, bluish-green

specimen for habit

Cedrus atlantica ‘Glauca’ - Blue Atlas Cedar

zone 6

60’x40’

small blue needles

specimen for silvery blue foliage

Calocedrus decurrens - Incense Cedar

zone 5

50’x10’

looks like a juniper, fragrant foliage, duck bill cones

specimen for habit/fragrance, hedge

Xanthocyparis nootkatensis - Nootka False Cypress

zone 4

45’x20’

weeping dude

Cupressus arizonica - Arizona Cypress

zone 7

50’x30’

green-gray, blueish foliage, soccer ball cones

specimen, xeric

Arctostaphylos patula - Greenleaf Manzanita

zone 5

6’x3’

thick green leaves, white/pink bell shaped flowers; Panchito

mass, ground cover

Arctostaphylos uva-ursi - Bearberry/Kinnikinick

zone 2

1’x4’

crisp, thick oval leaves and red berries; Massachusetts

specimen for berry, ground cover

Hesperaloe parviflora - Red Yucca

zone 5

5’x6’

bendy leaf tips, reddish tinge

xeric

Yucca filamentosa - Adam’s Needle Yucca

zone 4

6’x6’

stiff leaves, blue tinge, threads off of leaves

xeric

Buxus spp - Boxwood

zone 4

variety dependent

you know this one. snappy leaves

hedge, topiary, massing

Paxistima myrsinites - Oregon Boxwood

zone 3

3’x3’

serrated leaves with wittle bewwies

mass, rock garden

Juniperus chinensis - Chinese Juniper

zone 4

variety dependent

blue berry “cones”, specific smell

screen, massing

Juniperus horizontalis - Creeping Juniper

zone 4

2’x8’

low grower; Blue Chip

groundcover

Juniperus sabina - Tam Juniper

zone 3

3’x10’

strong odor when crushed; Buffalo

ground cover, xeric

Juniperus scopulorum - Rocky Mountain Juniper

zone 3

30’x15’

upright blue dude. you also know this, shredding bark

xeric,screen

Juniperus squamata Blue Star - Blue Star Juniper

zone 4

3’x4’

awl shaped leaves, blue pokey dude

specimen for color, massing

Juniperus virginiana - Eastern Redcedar

zone 3

50’x25’

upright juniper, green foliage, reddish bark; Taylor

Sequoiadendron giganteum - Giant Sequoia

zone 6

60’x25’

snake skin on young branches; Pendulum

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Thuja occidentalis - American Arborvitae

zone 3

15’x3’

horizontal branching, cones have visible scales and hang; Emerald Green

screen, massing, hedge

Thuja orientalis - Oriental Arborvitae

zone 5

10’x5’

vertical branching structure, green on both sides

hedge, screen

Thuja plicata - Giant Arborvitae

zone 5

70’x25’

cinnamon red bark, cones that stand straight up

hedge, screen, formal framing

Taxus spp - Yew

zone 4

variety dependent

evergreen foliage, red berries in late summer/fall

screen, mass, foundation