§1 Plant
Pinus glabra Walter
vernacular spruce pine — species · Pinaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Gymnosperm
- Family
- Pinaceae Spreng. ex Rudolphi
- Genus
- Pinus
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 147 counties across 8 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- None
- Hedging
- Low
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -2 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 240 min.
- Precipitation
- 35–66 in/yr
- pH range
- 3.8–5.6
- Root depth
- 30 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 90 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 30 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Dense
- Flower colour
- Green
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 46,400
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- Yes
- Fuelwood
- Medium
- Christmas tree
- Yes
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 147 counties across 8 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Autauga 01001
- Baldwin 01003
- Barbour 01005
- Bullock 01011
- Butler 01013
- Choctaw 01023
- Clarke 01025
- Coffee 01031
- Conecuh 01035
- Covington 01039
- Crenshaw 01041
- Dale 01045
- Elmore 01051
- Escambia 01053
- Geneva 01061
- Houston 01069
- Jackson 01071
- Lee 01081
- Macon 01087
- Marengo 01091
- Monroe 01099
- Montgomery 01101
- Perry 01105
- Pike 01109
- Russell 01113
- Shelby 01117
- Washington 01129
- Wilcox 01131
Arkansas view state ↗ 2 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 20 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 38 N ▾
- Baker 13007
- Ben Hill 13017
- Berrien 13019
- Brooks 13027
- Bulloch 13031
- Charlton 13049
- Chatham 13051
- Colquitt 13071
- Columbia 13073
- Cook 13075
- Crisp 13081
- Dodge 13091
- Early 13099
- Echols 13101
- Emanuel 13107
- Grady 13131
- Houston 13153
- Jackson 13157
- Jasper 13159
- Jefferson 13163
- Laurens 13175
- Lee 13177
- Liberty 13179
- Long 13183
- Lowndes 13185
- Macon 13193
- McIntosh 13191
- Pulaski 13235
- Stewart 13259
- Sumter 13261
- Tattnall 13267
- Terrell 13273
- Thomas 13275
- Tift 13277
- Wayne 13305
- Wheeler 13309
- Wilcox 13315
- Worth 13321
Louisiana view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Ascension 22005
- Bienville 22013
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Feliciana 22037
- Franklin 22041
- Jackson 22049
- Lincoln 22061
- Livingston 22063
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Helena 22091
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Union 22111
- Washington 22117
- Webster 22119
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Mississippi view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Amite 28005
- Choctaw 28019
- Clarke 28023
- Copiah 28029
- Covington 28031
- Forrest 28035
- George 28039
- Greene 28041
- Harrison 28047
- Jackson 28059
- Jasper 28061
- Jones 28067
- Lamar 28073
- Lauderdale 28075
- Lawrence 28077
- Leake 28079
- Lincoln 28085
- Newton 28101
- Pearl River 28109
- Perry 28111
- Pike 28113
- Rankin 28121
- Scott 28123
- Simpson 28127
- Smith 28129
- Stone 28131
- Walthall 28147
- Washington 28151
- Wayne 28153
South Carolina view state ↗ 6 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PIGL2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5285140 ↗Record version
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