Description: A small to medium-sized coniferous, Evergreen tree with a pyramidal habit. Horizontal, spreading boughs hold many, slender, weeping branchlets, creating a curtain-like effect. The needles are dark green with silvery green on the undersides and are spirally arranged on the weeping branchlets. Monoecious. The male pollen cones are small and rusty-brown in colour. The female seed cones emerge bright green, then turn purple before finally ageing to reddish-brown. Slow growing.

Picea breweriana is very rare in the wild and only found in remote regions of the Siskiyou Mountains of California and Oregon. The first specimen was collected by W. H. Brewer in 1863, and the species has been named in his honour.

Award of Garden Merit (AGM).

Additional common name - Brewer Spruce