red spruce
noun
: a spruce (Picea rubens) of the eastern U.S. and Canada that has pubescent twigs and yellowish-green needles and is an important source of lumber and pulpwood
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The water is naturally dyed a dark color by the hemlock and red spruce needles that fall into the river.
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Casey Barber, Southern Living, 12 Mar. 2025
What to Listen For: The wind whipping through the forest at the summit, so strong and constant that the peak’s red spruces have become deformed and only have branches and nettles on one side.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 4 Mar. 2025
This year’s tree is a 35-foot-tall red spruce from the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests in Virginia, per the National Park Service.
—The Hill Staff, The Hill, 5 Dec. 2024
The 18,000-acre Dolly Sods Wilderness, 17 miles northeast of Canaan Valley, protects a high-elevation plateau with rocky outcroppings, remote creeks, and flora such as red spruce and heath barrens—plant life more typical of southern Canada than southern Appalachia.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 14 July 2024
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Casey Barber, Southern Living, 12 Mar. 2025
What to Listen For: The wind whipping through the forest at the summit, so strong and constant that the peak’s red spruces have become deformed and only have branches and nettles on one side.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 4 Mar. 2025
This year’s tree is a 35-foot-tall red spruce from the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests in Virginia, per the National Park Service.
—The Hill Staff, The Hill, 5 Dec. 2024
The 18,000-acre Dolly Sods Wilderness, 17 miles northeast of Canaan Valley, protects a high-elevation plateau with rocky outcroppings, remote creeks, and flora such as red spruce and heath barrens—plant life more typical of southern Canada than southern Appalachia.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 14 July 2024
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“Red spruce.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/red%20spruce. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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