Michigan State University Extension
Ornamental Plants plus Version 2.0 - 00001090
01/01/98
Hardiness Zones: 2 to 6 Height: 50 ft Spread: 25 ft Form: pyramidal Type: narrow-leaved evergreen tree Annual Growth Rate: more than 18 inches
Comments: Norway Spruce can grow 80 to 100 feet tall and spread 25 to 35 feet but it is usually smaller in landscape situations. Many cultivars are shrub-like. Norway Spruce is a pyramidal tree with graceful, drooping branchlets and lustrous, dark green foliage at maturity.
Comments:
'Acrocona' - Cone formation occurs on young plants.
Usually forms a a broad pyramid.
'Capitata' - A dwarf with a dense, low, spreading
habit.
'Clanbrassiliana' - A dwarf, slow-growing, globe-shaped
form.
'Clanbrassiliana Stricta' - A conical tree forming a
broad pyramid at maturity.
'Cupressina' - A narrow, fastigiate form that may
resist limb breakage in winter.
'Elegans' - A low, dome-shaped plant.
'Gregoryana' - A slow growth rate is combined with a
dense but slightly irregular growth habit.
'Gregoryana Parsonii' - A slightly more open plant than
'Gregoryana'.
'Hillside Upright' - Very dark green needles are
displayed on an irregular branching habit.
'Inversa' - A weeping, narrow cultivar.
'Little Gem' - A dwarf with tiny needles and very dense
habit.
'Maxwelli' - A dense, low, globe-shaped dwarf.
'Mucronata' - An irregular, mounding habit when young.
'Nidiformis' - Dense mound with a depression in the
center. Slow growing, 2 to 4 inches a year.
'Nidiformis Mariana' - A dwarf, mound-shaped plant with
a flat top and green to bluish foliage.
'Ohlendorffi' - An upright, globe shape when young
becoming wide and conical with age.
'Pendula' - A weeping form having dark green needles.
If not staked it can be used as a ground cover.
'Pendula Major' - A large tree with irregular branching
and pendulous branchlets.
'Pendula Monstrosa' - More regular branching habit than
'Pendula Major'.
'Prostrata' - A low, slow-growing plant that can be 8
feet wide but only 2 feet tall.
'Pumila' - A globose dwarf when young but becoming
spreading with age.
'Pygmaea' - A dense and slow-growing plant but can be
variable.
'Pyramidalis' - A narrow, pyramidal form with
ascending branches.
'Reflexa' - A pyramidal form with upswept branches and
pendulous branchlets.
'Remonti' - A low, wide-spreading plant.
'Repens' - A procumbent plant with dark green needles.
'Virgata' - The small number of lateral branches give
the plant an unusual appearance.
'Witch's Brood' - A dense, slow-growing, dome-shaped
dwarf.
References for Cultivars: Iseli Nursery 1997, Weston Nurseries 1997, Berryhill Nursery 1995, Sheridan Nurseries 1997, Bailey Nurseries 1997, Lake County Nursery 1997, J. Frank Schmidt and Son 1997, Spring Meadow Nursery 1997, Monrovia Nursery Company 1997, Ray Wiegand's Nursery 1997, Wayside Gardens 1996, Studebaker Nurseries 1998.