Picea abies grows throughout Europe from Norway in the northwest
and Poland eastward, and also in the mountains of central Europe,
southwest to the western end of the Alps, and southeast in the
Carpathians and Balkans to the extreme north of Greece. The
northern limit is in the arctic, just north of 70° N in Norway. Its
eastern limit in Russia is hard to define, due to extensive
hybridisation and intergradation with the Siberian spruce, but is
usually given as the Ural Mountains.
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