Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Living Organisms (hierarchy name)
4. living organisms (entities)
5. Eukaryota (domain)
6. Plantae (kingdom)
7. Coniferophyta (division)
8. Pinopsida (class)
9. Pinales (order)
10. Pinaceae (family)
11. Picea (genus)

Anotations

Scope note:

Species of medium sized evergreen spruce growing at high altitudes in western North America, from Idaho and Wyoming to Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico, United States. The blue spruce has a light bluish-gray tone to its needles and is commonly used for landscaping and gardens. Its weak and brittle timber is used locally for log cabins. Occasionally the name blue spruce is incorrectly used for black spruce trees.