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Picea meyeri Rehder & E.H.Wilson

Meyer's Spruce

Pinaceae · Inner Mongolia, China North-Central · listed by its genus as a temperate garden plant

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Picea meyeri Rehder & E.H.Wilson: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, Rehd. & E.H.Wilson.

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Summary

Picea meyeri (Meyer's spruce; Chinese: 白杄; pinyin: báiqiān) is a species of spruce native to Nei Mongol in the northeast to Gansu in the southwest and also inhabiting Shanxi, Hebei and Shaanxi.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Picea meyeri", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as a temperate garden plant, listed under the genus Picea in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “tree”, “temperate”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the genus Picea in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “tree”, “temperate”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 52 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 52 of the 52 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeInner Mongolia, China North-Central · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker39.946, 115.319 · in the densest population, 19 records (37% of those in range)
Kew's description“tree” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 52 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 23 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 7 km away. 2 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 52 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 52 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Petr Filippov, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Aleksey 6666, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Nick Number, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Алексей19845689, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Picea 35 in the reference

Picea abies Picea abies Norway spruce Photo: CC BY, Марина Давлетшина Picea × albertiana Pinaceae Picea alcoquiana Picea alcoquiana Alcock's Spruce Photo: CC BY-SA, Inti-solPicea asperata Picea asperata Dragon spruce Photo: CC BY, rduta on FlickrPicea brachytyla Picea brachytyla Sargent's Spruce Photo: CC0, author not statedPicea breweriana Picea breweriana Brewer spruce Photo: CC BY, Sam EberhardPicea chihuahuana Picea chihuahuana Chihuahua spruce Photo: CC BY, Rodolfo Maximiliano Gutiérrez-SánchezPicea crassifolia Picea crassifolia Qinghai spruce Photo: CC0, no rights reservedPicea engelmannii Picea engelmannii Engelmann spruce Photo: CC BY, Daughter DadPicea × fennica Picea × fennica Pinaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedPicea glehnii Picea glehnii Sakhalin spruce Photo: CC BY, Andrew BazdyrevPicea jezoensis Picea jezoensis Yezo spruce Photo: CC BY, Violetta Dzizyurova all 36 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Picea meyeri f. pyramidalis; Picea meyeri subsp. mongolica; Picea meyeri var. mongolica; Picea meyeri var. pyramidalis; Picea mongolica. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Pinaceae
Described by
Rehder & E.H.Wilson
Native to
Inner Mongolia, China North-Central
Wild records
52 in range · 23 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF's key 5284824 is Picea meyeri Rehd. & E.H.Wilson; the page links Kew's Picea meyeri Rehder & E.H.Wilson, and the name is cited as Kew cites it
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2252 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 10 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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