Plant Type

Tree, Conifer

 

Height Range

40-60'

 

Flower Color

n/a

 

Flower Season

n/a

 

Leaf Color

Blue Green

 

Bark Color

Brown, Grey, Red

 

Fruit Color

Brown, Purple

 

Fruit Season

Winter, Fall, Persistent

Engelmann spruce is an uright, strongly pyramidal evergreen tree growing 40 to 50 feet tall and 20 to 30 feet wide (though in its habitat, it can reach heights of 100 feet). It has strong ascending branches and blue-green needles. Bark is thin and broken into scales of purplish-brown to russet red. Cones are purplish-brown. A Utah native, it grows best in higher elevations, and so is better suited to the bench areas and above and less so to the valley where it is warmer and drier.