Native Pine Trees, Pinus, page 4

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Table-Mountain Pine (Pinus pungens)
Common names: Hickory Pine, Prickly
Height: 50-60 ft
Diameter: 2-3 ft
Showy flower: no
Fall colors: no-evergreen
Drought tolerant: high
Annual rainfall: 36-60
Soil Needs: well draining, pH 4.5-7.0
Frost Free Days: 165
Minimum Tempurature (F): -18
Growth Rate: slow
Longevity: 250
State List: GA, IL, MD, NC, NJ, PA,
SC, TN, VA, WV ... more

A slow growing native conifer, Table-Mountain pine is a small tree, usually with a crooked trunk, only reaching 25 feet in height in the first 20 years of development. The oldest known tree is 227 years and can be found in southwest North Carolina. Pinus pungens grows up to 60 feet, most are around 50 feet tall. The single trunk, reaching a diameter between 2 ...more

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Sugar Pine (Pinus lambertiana Douglas.)
PROTECTED SPECIES IN NV
Height: 175-200 ft occasionally 240
Diameter: 3-5 ft
Showy flower: no
Fall colors: no-evergreen
Drought tolerant: medium
Annual rainfall: 25-90
Soil Needs: moist, acidic, well-draining
Frost Free Days: 150
Minimum Temperature (F): -28
Growth Rate: rapid
State List: CA, NV, OR,
...more

The Sugar Pine is a large pine, surpassed only by the Ponderosa Pine, native to the western United States. Typically, it reaches heights between 175-200 feet but can grow as tall as 240. Equally impressive for a pine, the trunk diameter is between 3-5 feet. It is a rapidly growing tree, attaining 40 feet in just 20 years. The growing season encompasses spring, summer and fall ...more

Pinus lambertiana is native to California, Nevada and Oregon

Virginia Pine (Pinus virginiana Mill)
Height: 40-75 ft
Diameter:1-1.5 ft
Showy flower: no
Fall colors: no-evergreen
Drought tolerant: highly
Annual rainfall: 32-65
Soil Needs: well draining, pH 4.5-7.5
Frost Free Days: 90
Minimum Tempurature (F): -33
Growth Rate: rapid
Longevity: 200-450 years
State List:AL, DE, GA, IL, IN, KY,
MD, MO, MS, NC, NJ, NY, OH, PA,
SC, VA, WV

A native conifer, the Virginia Pine is a short to moderately lived tree, rarely reaching 150 years in age, and usually begins to decline between 65 and 90 years old. Sometimes ragged or shrubby on poorer sites, Virginia pines only grow to a height of 25 feet in 20 years and reach a mature height between 40 and 70 feet. Most trees do not exceed 1.5 feet in diameter. ...more

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Washoe Pine (Pinus washoensis Mason & Stockw .)
Common names: Yellow Pine
Height: 115-130 ft
Diameter: 5 ft
Showy flower: no
Fall colors: no-evergreen
Drought tolerant: medium
Annual rainfall: 25-90
Soil Needs: moist, acidic, well-draining
Frost Free Days: 150
Minimum Tempurature (F): -28
Growth Rate:
State List: CA, NV, OR,
...more

RARE
The Washoe pine tree is a rare native conifer found only in California, Oregon and Nevada. It looks similar to Jeffrey and Ponderosa pine, so much so it is sometimes actually classified as a Ponderosa pine subspecies (see synonyms above). Pinus washoensis is a large tree, reaching 5 feet in diameter and 130 feet in height. It is also a long ...more

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Pinus albicaulis is a native conifer found in the western United States and Canada and is the only stone pine native to North America. Extremely long lived and slow growing, Whitebark pine takes 200 years to reach maturity and may live to 500 years. In 20 years, this tree species averages 15 feet tall, eventually growing to 70 feet, usually less, with a trunk diameter of 1 to 2 feet. ...more

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Distibution maps courtesy USDA PLANTS Database

Pinus pungen seeds are small and brown with a single, 1 inch long, papery wing

Pinus pungen is native to the Atlantic coast region of the United States as well as Tennessee and Illinois

Pinus virginiana is native to the eastern United States and introduced in western Canada

Pinus virginiana seeds are brown and have a single papery wing

Pinus albicaulis is native to the Rocky Mountains in California, Idaho, Montana, Nevadam Oregon, Washington and Wyoming in the United States and Alberta and Briish Columbia in Canada

male catkins of Pinus albicaulis are at the terminal ends of branches

Pinus albicaulis seeds are hard, round and without a wing

Young Pinus albicaulis have silvery bark

White Bark Pine (Pinus albicaulis Engelm.)
PROTECTED SPECIES IN NV
Height: 50-70 ft
Diameter: 1-2 ft
Showy flower: no
Fall colors: no-evergreen
Drought tolerant: highly
Annual rainfall: 18-72
Soil Needs: moist, rocky, well-draining
Frost Free Days: 90
Minimum Temperature (F): -58
Growth Rate: very slow
State List: CA, ID, MT, NV, OR, WA,
WY Canada: AB, BC ...more

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Pinus lambertiana has dark green foliage

Home>Families>Pinaceae>North American Native Pine Trees, Pinus

Pine trees are one of the most varied and widely spread

genus of native tree species in North America. From the

cold mountains of Alaska to Nova Scotia in the east, from high

wind-swept Rocky Mountain cliffs to the fertile Appalachian

forests, on seaside borders, swamps, dry foothills, lowlands

and everywhere in between, pine trees can be found. Adapted

to so many environments, pine trees are hardy survivors in

their native habitat. The pine trees of North America were

used by Native Americans for treatments of respiratory ailments, in canoe building and even as food. Today native pines are one of the most valuable commercial timber sources and continue to be used for construction, furniture, pulpwood, land management and more.

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