Shoot Logo
Take a photoPlans & pricingBook a demoGet started

Picea engelmannii (Engelmann spruce)

Other names: Mountain spruce

ShootChecker™

STOP: Make sure you get the “Right Plant, Right Place.”

90% of plants die because they were the wrong plant choice. Shoot helps you to save valuable time and money to get the right plant choices for any garden.

How ShootChecker™ works

Get the Right Plant, Right Place

1

Provide details about your garden or your client's garden conditions

2

ShootChecker™ will help you assess if it is the right plant

3

Save money with Right Plant, Right Place.

Get started Book a demo

Other Shoot features

Laptop, tablet and mobile devices

One-stop planning
Streamlined garden design and record-keeping all in one place

Monthly care advice
Receive tailored monthly care advice for plants in your garden

Present and collaborate
Share designs and care tasks with anyone

Join Shoot today to enjoy…

  • ShootChecker™
  • One-stop garden design
  • Monthly care advice for every plant in your garden
  • Saving money with Right Plant, Right Place

All you need to do is join.

Get started
Book a demo

Already a member? Sign in

Add to plant list
Species
P. engelmannii is a narrowly conical tree with reddish-brown, scaly bark and short branches bearing slender, flexible, radially arranged, blue-green leaves and cylindrical to ovoid, light brown female cones with flexible scales.
Add to plant list
ShootChecker™
Season of interest

Flower

Spring Summer Autumn Winter
Flower

Foliage

Spring Summer Autumn Winter
Foliage
Height and spread

Height and spread

Size Max height Max spread To maturity
40 m 5 m 20-50 years
131 ft 16 ft 20-50 years

Where to grow

Soil type
  • Clay
  • Loamy
  • Sandy
Soil drainage
  • Moist but well-drained
  • Well-drained
Soil pH
  • Acid
  • Neutral
Sunlight
  • Full Sun
Aspect
  • East
  • West
  • South
  • North
Exposure
  • Exposed
  • Sheltered

Check to see if this is the Right Plant, Right Place with ShootChecker™

Open ShootChecker™

Additional plant details

Cultivation

Grow in deep, moist but well-drained, neutral to acid loam in full sun. Native to cold regions. Dislikes hot, humid summers.

Suggested uses

Architectural, Low Maintenance

UK hardiness

H7

USDA zones

Zone 2, Zone 3, Zone 4, Zone 5

Sunset zone

4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 1, 2, 3, A2, A3

WUCOLS

North-Central Coastal = Inappropriate
Central Valley = Unknown
South Coastal = Inappropriate
South Inland = Inappropriate
High and Intermediate Desert = Inappropriate
Low Desert = Inappropriate

Foliage

Evergreen

Habit

Narrowly conical

Native to

North America

Drought tolerant

No

Flood tolerant

No

Toxicity

Not toxic

Plant care

Pruning

Little or no pruning required.

Propagation methods

Seed, Semi-hardwood cuttings

Pests

Pineapple gall adelgid on spruce trees

Aphids

Red spider mite (box and other)

Diseases

Generally disease free.

Chemical and organic control of spruce pineapple gall adelgids

Cultural control of spruce pineapple gall adelgids

Biological control of spruce pineapple gall adelgids

Take semi-hardwood cuttings in late-summer

Plant in acidic soil

Plant in acid soils that are moist but well-drained

Plant container grown plants in a sunny postion

Requires little or no pruning (winter)

Sow seeds in a cold frame in spring

Other plants

Plants in this Genus (62)

Picea

Select all Deselect all
0 selected Add to a plant list
0 selected
Picea glauca var. albertiana 'J.W. Daisy's White'
View
Select
Picea glauca var. albertiana 'J.W. Daisy's White' Alberta spruce 'J.W. Daisy's White'
Picea abies 'Little Gem'
View
Select
Picea abies 'Little Gem' Norway spruce 'Little Gem'
Picea abies 'Nidiformis'
View
Select
Picea abies 'Nidiformis' Norway spruce 'Nidiformis'
Picea breweriana
View
Select
Picea breweriana Brewer's weeping spruce
Picea glauca 'Echiniformis'
View
Select
Picea glauca 'Echiniformis' White spruce 'Echiniformis'
Picea mariana 'Nana'
View
Select
Picea mariana 'Nana' Dwarf black spruce
Picea omorika
View
Select
Picea omorika Serbian spruce
Picea omorika 'Nana'
View
Select
Picea omorika 'Nana' Dwarf Serbian spruce
Picea omorika 'Pendula'
View
Select
Picea omorika 'Pendula' Weeping Serbian spruce
Picea orientalis
View
Select
Picea orientalis Oriental spruce
Picea orientalis 'Aurea'
View
Select
Picea orientalis 'Aurea' Golden oriental spruce
Picea pungens 'Hoopsii'
View
Select
Picea pungens 'Hoopsii' Colorado spruce 'Hoopsii'
Picea pungens 'Koster'
View
Select
Picea pungens 'Koster' Colorado spruce 'Koster'
Picea glauca var. albertiana 'Alberta Globe'
View
Select
Picea glauca var. albertiana 'Alberta Globe' Dwarf Alberta spruce
Picea glauca var. albertiana 'Conica'
View
Select
Picea glauca var. albertiana 'Conica' Alberta spruce 'Conica'
Picea pungens 'Sester Dwarf'
View
Select
Picea pungens 'Sester Dwarf' Colorado spruce 'Sester Dwarf'
Picea pungens 'Iseli Fastigiate'
View
Select
Picea pungens 'Iseli Fastigiate' Colorado spruce 'Iseli Fastigiate'
Picea pungens 'Saint Mary's Broom'
View
Select
Picea pungens 'Saint Mary's Broom' Colorado spruce 'Saint Mary's Broom'
Picea abies
View
Select
Picea abies Norway spruce
Picea abies 'Rydal'
View
Select
Picea abies 'Rydal' Norway spruce 'Rydal'
Picea pungens (Glauca Group) 'Globosa'
View
Select
Picea pungens (Glauca Group) 'Globosa' Colorado spruce 'Globosa'
Picea pungens 'Fat Albert'
View
Select
Picea pungens 'Fat Albert' Colorado spruce 'Fat Albert'
Picea glauca 'Arneson's Blue Variegated'
View
Select
Picea glauca 'Arneson's Blue Variegated' White spruce 'Arneson's Blue Variegated'
Picea pungens 'Edith'
View
Select
Picea pungens 'Edith' Colorado spruce 'Edith'
Picea pungens
View
Select
Picea pungens Colorado spruce
Select all Deselect all Add to a plant list

Companion plants (1)

Select all Deselect all
0 selected Add to a plant list
0 selected
Pieris 'Forest Flame'
View
Select
Pieris 'Forest Flame' Pieris 'Forest Flame'
Select all Deselect all Add to a plant list

Related content

Discuss Picea engelmannii with other Shoot members
Read more
TOP