Also known as Picea pungens, the Colorado Blue spruce is a native North American evergreen tree whose habitat extends from Idaho to Wyoming and south through Utah, Colarado and Arizona. This by far is considered one of the most popular Christmas trees due to it's silver-blue needle color. However, it should be noted that only about 60% of the trees every develop this color, with the remaining retain a greenish-blue needle color. Often this genetic color change is not prominent until the tree is several years old.

A slow to moderate grower, the Colorado Blue spruce tree will attain heights of 75 feet when mature. Very deer resistant and tolerable of a various soil conditions, this evergreen tree makes an excellent choice as a solo landscape specimen, windbreak or hedge row.