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§1 Plant
Pinus sylvestris L.
vernacular Scots 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
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 96 counties across 14 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- Medium
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -36 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 120 min.
- Precipitation
- 24–45 in/yr
- pH range
- 5–7.5
- Root depth
- 20 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 110 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 30 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Dense
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Spring
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 70,720
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Fuelwood
- Medium
- Christmas tree
- Yes
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 96 counties across 14 states/territories.
Illinois view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 4 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 9 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 20 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 24 I ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Beaver 42007
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bucks 42017
- Chester 42029
- Clarion 42031
- Clearfield 42033
- Clinton 42035
- Crawford 42039
- Erie 42049
- Franklin 42055
- Jefferson 42065
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lehigh 42077
- Northampton 42095
- Potter 42105
- Somerset 42111
- Susquehanna 42115
- Venango 42121
- Warren 42123
- Westmoreland 42129
- York 42133
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 7 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PISY ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5285637 ↗Record version
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