Foliage

Sitka spruce

Picea sitchensis

evergreen conifer · the trees that make the view

stays green through the autumn

The dates here are for North Woods. Choose a country below to open it beside the whole forest.

Its colors

stays green through the autumn

no picture of it this autumn yet

North Woods

this year, by the model, the forest here peaks about Oct 7, 2026.

Model of Oct 27, 2026.

Where this share comes from
  • Pacific lowlands: in its own places (1); the 2017 national inventory counts 1,405 of 159,238 million cubic feet of Sitka spruce in the Pacific Northwest; Canada’s 2007–2017 Pacific Maritime spruce group is 163.239 of 5,621.016 million cubic meters. Both coastal readings put it below a tenth, even when other spruces are counted with it. — USDA Forest Service; Canada National Forest Inventory (2017 inventory, published 2019; Canadian inventory 2007–2017, publication date not stated).
  • Alaska: not yet read; the 2017 inventory holds the line.

Its pictures this autumn

no picture of it this autumn yet
The sources’ own words

Most of the conifers - pines, spruces, firs, hemlocks, cedars, etc. - are evergreen in both the North and South.

[ESF-1]

Net volume of growing stock on timberland in the Western United States by species, region, and subregion, 2017, 2012, 2007, 1997, 1987, 1977, and 1963

[RPA17]

Sitka spruce in its color, the other trees in gray: one small forest for each country, one column a week. Heights carry four share grades, from a tree in its own places to most of the forest.

North Woods

no share recorded here

Rockies’ aspen country

no share recorded here

High Appalachians

no share recorded here

Maple country

no share recorded here

Lakes

no share recorded here

Oak and hickory country

no share recorded here

Ozarks and the mid-South

no share recorded here

Southwest and the Sierra

no share recorded here

Larch country

no share recorded here

Deep South and the coastal plain

no share recorded here