Spermatophytes (seed plants): Gymnosperms (non-flowering plants): Conifers: Pinales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Pinus palustris
FAMILY
Pinaceae
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and The Pines of South Carolina
Learn more about Pinus from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pinus palustris
FAMILY
Pinaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Pinus palustris
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 016-01-002:
Pinus palustris FAMILY Pinaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Pinus australis
COMMON NAME:
Longleaf Pine, Southern Pine
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Trees You Want to Know (Peattie, 1934); illustration by F.A. Michaux dcp34_p07
This valuable tree supplied the world with tar, pitch, and turpentine, per Trees You Want to Know (Peattie, 1934).
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JK Marlow jkm191222_2357_p_palustri
Clay County AL
Cheaha State Park
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Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) (Sargent, 1905) mtna_i_047
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_pipa2_001_lvd
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Keith Bradley kab_pinus_palustris_1358
March Richland County SC
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Keith Bradley kab_pinus_palustris_1369
March Richland County SC
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JK Marlow jkm0504j_11
April Greenville County SC
Furman University
Needles densely crowded at branch ends in a distinctive arrangement, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide (Kirkman, Brown, & Leopold, 2007).
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JK Marlow jkm060423_031
April Charleston County SC
Francis Marion National Forest
Originally the dominant pine in the coastal southern forests, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001).
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JK Marlow jkm060423_032
April Charleston County SC
Francis Marion National Forest
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JK Marlow jkm110415_460
April Carroll County GA
Fascicle sheaths 1/2-1" long, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide (Kirkman, Brown, & Leopold, 2007).
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JK Marlow jkm110415_465
April Carroll County GA
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JK Marlow jkm110415_467
April Carroll County GA
Cones 15-25cm, with short stout prickles, per Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004).
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JK Marlow jkm130406_734
April Richmond County GA
Fort Gordon
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JK Marlow jkm130406_738
April Richmond County GA
Fort Gordon
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JK Marlow jkm130406_797
April Richmond County GA
Fort Gordon
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JK Marlow jkm130406_868
April Richmond County GA
Fort Gordon
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JK Marlow jkm130406_873
April Richmond County GA
Fort Gordon
This species has been heavily exploited for timber & turpentine, per Weakley's Flora.
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Alan S. Weakley asw_143055161971104
May Cumberland County NC
Carvers Creek State Park
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JK Marlow jkm180504_1676
May Meriwether-Talbot Counties GA
Sprewell Bluff WMA
The twigs are very stout, a half inch or more in diameter, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide (Kirkman, Brown, & Leopold, 2007).
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JK Marlow jkm180505_1711
May Pike County GA
Camp Thunder VPA
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JK Marlow jkm180505_1714
May Pike County GA
Camp Thunder VPA
Bark gray-brown, thick in mature trees, w flat, scaly, reddish-brown plates, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide (Kirkman, Brown, & Leopold, 2007).
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JK Marlow jkm180505_1720
May Pike County GA
Camp Thunder VPA
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JK Marlow jkm180505_1725
May Pike County GA
Camp Thunder VPA
The young stems resemble large candles before leaves appear, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Keith Bradley kab_pinus_palustris_73920
May Orange County FL
Wekiwa Springs State Park
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Steve Marlow snm090516_034
May Charleston County SC
Francis Marion National Forest
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Alan S. Weakley asw_10231836649435228
June
The state tree of North Carolina.
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Alan S. Weakley asw_10231869846385131
July Hoke County NC
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_pinus_palustris
August
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JK Marlow s050827_a
August Greenville County SC
Furman University
Needles 10-18" long, 3 per fascicle, coarse, flexible, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide (Kirkman, Brown, & Leopold, 2007).
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JK Marlow jkm161001_021
September Chesterfield County SC
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
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JK Marlow jkm161001_023
September Chesterfield County SC
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
This year's seedling.
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JK Marlow jkm161001_027
October Chesterfield County SC
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
The plant looks like a tuft of coarse grass for the first 5-7 years, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm161001_773
September Chesterfield County SC
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_pinus_palustris_2
November
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_pinus_palustris_26
November
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_pinus_palustris_3
November
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Pinus palustris
FAMILY
Pinaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pinus palustris
FAMILY
Pinaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Pinus palustris
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 016-01-002:
Pinus palustris
FAMILY
Pinaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Pinus australis
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Tree
Perennial
Monoecious
Habitat: Formerly throughout the Coastal Plain, Sandhills, and lower Piedmont, on a wide variety of soils (sandy, loamy, clayey, or peaty), from very dry to very wet conditions, in savannas, woodlands, and forests affected by relatively frequent natural (lightning caused) fires (likely augmented by native Americans), now reduced to less than a tenth of its former abundance by a variety of forces, including turpentining, timbering, free-range hogs, fire suppression, and ‘site conversion’ by foresters to other trees, now extremely rare in VA and north of the Neuse River in NC, still occurring in some abundance in the outer Coastal Plain from Carteret County, NC south into GA, in the Bladen Lakes area of Bladen and Cumberland counties, and in the Fall-Line Sandhills of Harnett, Hoke, Scotland, Richmond, Moore, Anson, and Montgomery counties, NC and south into GA, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Coastal Plain, uncommon in GA Piedmont, rare in elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Evergreen
Needles 10-18" long
Needles 3 per bundle
"FLOWER":
Winter/Spring
what
Unisexual
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Cone
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South (Wasowski & Wasowski, 1994, 2020) p038
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p232
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p285
- Identifying Trees: An All-Season Guide to Eastern North America (Williams, 2007) p336
- Landscaping with Native Trees (Sternberg & Wilson, 1995) p176
- Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide (Kirkman, Brown, & Leopold, 2007) p268
- Trees of the Southeastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1988) p030
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p158
- Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004) p241
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