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§1 Plant
Pinus pungens Lamb.
vernacular Table Mountain 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
· 130 counties across 11 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- Low
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -18 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 165 min.
- Precipitation
- 36–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.5–7
- Root depth
- 24 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 50 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 25 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Dense
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 34,200
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- Yes
- Fuelwood
- Medium
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 130 counties across 11 states/territories.
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 3 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Chester 42029
- Columbia 42037
- Cumberland 42041
- Dauphin 42043
- Franklin 42055
- Fulton 42057
- Huntingdon 42061
- Lancaster 42071
- Lebanon 42075
- Lehigh 42077
- Mifflin 42087
- Montgomery 42091
- Northumberland 42097
- Perry 42099
- Schuylkill 42107
- Snyder 42109
- Union 42119
- Washington 42125
- Westmoreland 42129
- York 42133
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 48 N ▾
- Albemarle 51003
- Alleghany 51005
- Amherst 51009
- Appomattox 51011
- Augusta 51015
- Bath 51017
- Bedford 51019
- Bland 51021
- Botetourt 51023
- Buckingham 51029
- Campbell 51031
- Carroll 51035
- Clarke 51043
- Craig 51045
- Culpeper 51047
- Fairfax 51059
- Fauquier 51061
- Floyd 51063
- Fluvanna 51065
- Franklin 51067
- Frederick 51069
- Giles 51071
- Grayson 51077
- Greene 51079
- Henry 51089
- Highland 51091
- Loudoun 51107
- Louisa 51109
- Madison 51113
- Montgomery 51121
- Nelson 51125
- Orange 51137
- Page 51139
- Patrick 51141
- Pittsylvania 51143
- Prince William 51153
- Pulaski 51155
- Rappahannock 51157
- Roanoke 51161
- Rockbridge 51163
- Rockingham 51165
- Shenandoah 51171
- Smyth 51173
- Spotsylvania 51177
- Surry 51181
- Tazewell 51185
- Warren 51187
- Wythe 51197
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PIPU5 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5285139 ↗Record version
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