Plant Details

Accepted name:: Picea laxa (Münchh.) Sarg. [Pinaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
alberta white spruce	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
american white spruce	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
black hills spruce	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
canadian spruce	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
picea glauca	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
porsild spruce	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
schimmelfichte	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
vitgran	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
weißfichte	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
western white spruce	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
white spruce	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
épinette blanche	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 42 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Abies canadensis Mill. Gard. Dict., ed. 8.: n.° 4 (1768).
Picea glauca (Moench) Voss Mitt. Deutsch. Dendrol. Ges. 16: 93 (1907).
Abies alba (Castigl.) Michx. Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 207 (1803), nom. illeg.
Abies alba var. caerulea J.Nelson Pinaceae: 47 (1866).
Abies alba var. nana Jacques Ann. Fl. Pomone 4: 326 (1836).
Abies alba var. virescens (R.Hinterh. & J.Hinterh.) Nyman Consp. Fl. Eur.: 673 (1881).
Abies arctica A.Murray bis J. Bot. 5: 253 (1867), pro syn.
Abies canadensis var. aurea J.Nelson Pinaceae: 32 (1866).
Abies coerulea Lodd. ex J.Forbes Pinet. Woburn.: 99 (1839).
Abies laxa (Münchh.) K.Koch Dendrologie 2(2): 243 (1873), nom. superfl.
Abies rubra var. violacea Loudon Arbor. Frutic. Brit. 4: 2316 (1838).
Abies virescens R.Hinterh. & J.Hinterh. Prod. Fl. Salzburg: 200 (1851).
Picea alba (Castigl.) Link Handbuch 2: 478 (1841).
Picea alba f. acutissima Beissn. Handb. Nadelholzk.: 342 (1891).
Picea alba var. coerulea Jacob-Makoy Nursery Cat. (L. Jacob-Makoy & Co.) 114: 27 (1870).
Picea alba var. foetida Penh. Science, n.s., 6: 474 (1897).
Picea alba var. pendula Carrière Traité Gén. Conif., ed. 2: 321 (1867).
Picea canadensis (Mill.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb. Prelim. Cat.: 71 (1888), nom. illeg.
Picea canadensis var. albertiana Rehder Mitt. Deutsch. Dendrol. Ges. 24: 213 (1915).
Picea canadensis var. glauca (Moench) Sudw. U.S.D.A. Div. Forest. Bull. 14: 37 (1897).
Picea canadensis var. nana (Jacques) Sudw. Bull. Div. Forest. U.S.D.A. 14: 38 (1897).
Picea canadensis f. parva Vict. Contr. Lab. Bot. Univ. Montréal 10: 16 (1927).
Picea canadensis var. pendula (Carrière) C.K.Schneid. in E.E.Silva Tarouca, Uns. Freil.-Nadelhölzer: 224 (1913).
Picea coerulea (Lodd. ex J.Forbes) Link Linnaea 15: 522 (1842).
Picea glauca f. aurea (J.Nelson) Rehder J. Arnold Arbor. 1: 57 (1919).
Picea glauca f. buxoides J.R.Schramm Arbor. Bull. Assoc. 3: 68 (1941).
Picea glauca f. caerulea (J.Nelson) Rehder J. Arnold Arbor. 1: 57 (1919).
Picea glauca f. conica Rehder J. Arnold Arbor. 1: 1492 (1920).
Picea glauca f. nana (Jacques) Rehder J. Arnold Arbor. 1: 57 (1919).
Picea glauca f. parva Fernald & Weath. Rhodora 34: 187 (1932).
Picea glauca var. pendula (Carrière) Hornibr. in F.J.Chittenden, Rep. Conif. Conf. R.H.S.: 81 (1932).
Picea tschugatskoyae Carrière Traité Gén. Conif., ed. 2: 319 (1867), pro syn.
Pinus alba Aiton Hort. Kew. 3: 371 (1789), nom. illeg.
Pinus alba var. arctica (A.Murray bis) Parl. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 16(2): 414 (1868).
Pinus alba var. nana (Jacques) Antoine Coniferen 2: 87 (1841).
Pinus canadensis (Mill.) Du Roi Diss. Inaug. Obs. Bot.: 38 (1771), nom. illeg.
Pinus canadensis var. alba Castigl. Viagg. Stati Uniti 2: 314 (1790).
Pinus coerulea Lodd. ex G.Don in J.C.Loudon, Hort. Brit.: 387 (1830), not validly publ.
Pinus glauca Moench Verz. Ausländ. Bäume: 73 (1785).
Pinus laxa Münchh. Hausvater 5(1): 225 (1770).
Pinus tetragona Moench Methodus: 364 (1794).
Pinus virescens Neilr. Fl. Wien, Nachtr.: 68 (1851), not validly publ.

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Abies canadensis Mill.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Picea glauca (Moench) Voss	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Picea laxa (Münchh.) Sarg.	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)

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