black spruce
noun
: a widely distributed spruce (Picea mariana) of northern North America that grows chiefly in moist soils and bogs
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Lots of poplar, lots of aspen, lots of black spruce, but there’s also a lot of bog in there, a lot of swamp.
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Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
Several of its common species, like black spruce, and jack and lodgepole pines, cannot procreate without fire.
—Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023
Start your practice with an essential oil, like Seasons’s Winter scent, which has a fresh, spicy aroma through notes of black spruce, cinnamon leaf, and vetiver.
—Kiana Murden, Vogue, 26 June 2023
For the last several years, Pfeiffer’s search had focused on a single bog with plentiful black spruce trees, where bog elfin are known to lay their eggs.
—Billy Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
As summers and winters become warmer, experts predict animals, including moose and the state bird, the loon, along with species of the vast northern forests like paper birch, quaking aspen, balsam fir, and black spruce, will shift northward into Canada.
—Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Aug. 2022
There’s these black spruce trees....
—Emily Schwing, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2021
One hundred miles out from anywhere, a narrow cut in the black spruce appeared.
—John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2022
The fire was started by lightning on May 31 and has continued to burn through tundra, dry grasses, brush and black spruce.
—Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2022
Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
Several of its common species, like black spruce, and jack and lodgepole pines, cannot procreate without fire.
—Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023
Start your practice with an essential oil, like Seasons’s Winter scent, which has a fresh, spicy aroma through notes of black spruce, cinnamon leaf, and vetiver.
—Kiana Murden, Vogue, 26 June 2023
For the last several years, Pfeiffer’s search had focused on a single bog with plentiful black spruce trees, where bog elfin are known to lay their eggs.
—Billy Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
As summers and winters become warmer, experts predict animals, including moose and the state bird, the loon, along with species of the vast northern forests like paper birch, quaking aspen, balsam fir, and black spruce, will shift northward into Canada.
—Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Aug. 2022
There’s these black spruce trees....
—Emily Schwing, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2021
One hundred miles out from anywhere, a narrow cut in the black spruce appeared.
—John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2022
The fire was started by lightning on May 31 and has continued to burn through tundra, dry grasses, brush and black spruce.
—Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2022
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