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|accepted_name=Picea breweriana
|accepted_authority=S. Watson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|place=20: 378. 1885
|year=1885
}}
|common_names=Brewer spruce;weeping spruce
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|hierarchy=Pinaceae;Picea;Picea breweriana
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Pinaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Picea]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Picea breweriana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism some measurement;whole_organism growth form"><b>Trees </b>to 40m;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="trunk diameter;trunk architecture">trunk to 1.5m diam., typically buttressed;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="crown shape">crown conic.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="bark coloration"><b>Bark </b>gray to brown.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="branch orientation"><b>Branches </b>drooping;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="twig orientation;twig shape;twig size;twig coloration;twig pubescence">twigs pendent, elongate, slender, gray-brown, finely pubescent.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="bud coloration;bud some measurement;apex shape"><b>Buds </b>gray-brown, 5–7mm, apex rounded.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="leaf some measurement;leaf shape;leaf shape;leaf texture;abaxial surface coloration;stomatal presence;band presence;adaxial surface pubescence;stomatal prominence;stomatal arrangement;band prominence;band arrangement;ridge prominence;apex shape"><b>Leaves </b>1.5–3cm, flattened or broadly triangular in cross-section (abaxial surface rounded or slightly angular), rather rigid, abaxial surface dark green with stomatal bands absent, adaxial surface glaucous with conspicuous stomatal bands separated by slight ridge or angle, apex blunt (especially on older leaves).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="cone-seed distance"><b>Seed-</b>cones 6.5–12cm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="scale shape;scale length;scale width;scale texture;apex architecture">scales fan-shaped, 15–20 × 15–20mm, rigid, margin at apex entire to slightly erose.</span><!--

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|habitat=Montane to subalpine forests of the Siskiyou Mountains
|elevation=1000–2300m
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=waring1975a
|text=Waring, R.H., W.H. Emmingham, and S.W. Running. 1975. Environmental limits of an endemic spruce, Picea breweriana. Canad. J. Bot. 53: 1599--1613.
}}
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name=Picea breweriana
|authority=S. Watson
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Pinaceae
|habitat=Montane to subalpine forests of the Siskiyou Mountains
|elevation=1000–2300m
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.
|reference=waring1975a
|publication title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication year=1885
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Picea
|species=Picea breweriana
|abaxial surface coloration=dark green
|adaxial surface pubescence=glaucous
|apex architecture=entire;slightly erose
|apex shape=blunt;rounded
|band arrangement=separated
|band presence=absent
|band prominence=conspicuous
|bark coloration=gray;brown
|branch orientation=drooping
|bud coloration=gray-brown
|bud some measurement=5mm;7mm
|cone-seed distance=6.5cm;12cm
|crown shape=conic
|leaf shape=triangular;flattened
|leaf some measurement=1.5cm;3cm
|leaf texture=rigid
|ridge prominence=slight
|scale length=15mm;20mm
|scale shape=fan--shaped
|scale texture=rigid
|scale width=15mm;20mm
|stomatal arrangement=separated
|stomatal presence=absent
|stomatal prominence=conspicuous
|trunk architecture=buttressed
|trunk diameter=0m;1.5m
|twig coloration=gray-brown
|twig orientation=pendent
|twig pubescence=pubescent
|twig shape=elongate
|twig size=slender
|whole_organism growth form=tree
|whole_organism some measurement=0m;40m
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