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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Gymnosperms (non-flowering plants): Conifers: Pinales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Pinus palustris   FAMILY Pinaceae   Go to FSUS key



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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image of Pinus palustris, Longleaf Pine, Southern Pine

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).

image of Pinus palustris, Longleaf Pine, Southern Pine

JK Marlow    jkm191222_2357_p_palustri

    Clay County    AL

Cheaha State Park

image of Pinus palustris, Longleaf Pine, Southern Pine

Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) (Sargent, 1905)    mtna_i_047

        

image of Pinus palustris, Longleaf Pine, Southern Pine

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_pipa2_001_lvd

        

image of Pinus palustris, Longleaf Pine, Southern Pine

Keith Bradley    kab_pinus_palustris_1358

March    Richland County    SC

image of Pinus palustris, Longleaf Pine, Southern Pine

Keith Bradley    kab_pinus_palustris_1369

March    Richland County    SC

image of Pinus palustris, Longleaf Pine, Southern Pine

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).

image of Pinus palustris, Longleaf Pine, Southern Pine

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).

image of Pinus palustris, Longleaf Pine, Southern Pine

JK Marlow    jkm060423_032

April    Charleston County    SC

Francis Marion National Forest

image of Pinus palustris, Longleaf Pine, Southern Pine

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).

image of Pinus palustris, Longleaf Pine, Southern Pine

JK Marlow    jkm110415_465

April    Carroll County    GA

image of Pinus palustris, Longleaf Pine, Southern Pine

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

image of Pinus palustris, Longleaf Pine, Southern Pine

JK Marlow    jkm130406_738

April    Richmond County    GA

Fort Gordon

image of Pinus palustris, Longleaf Pine, Southern Pine

JK Marlow    jkm130406_797

April    Richmond County    GA

Fort Gordon

image of Pinus palustris, Longleaf Pine, Southern Pine

JK Marlow    jkm130406_868

April    Richmond County    GA

Fort Gordon

image of Pinus palustris, Longleaf Pine, Southern Pine

JK Marlow    jkm130406_873

April    Richmond County    GA

Fort Gordon

This species has been heavily exploited for timber & turpentine, per Weakley's Flora.

image of Pinus palustris, Longleaf Pine, Southern Pine

Alan S. Weakley    asw_143055161971104

May    Cumberland County    NC

Carvers Creek State Park

image of Pinus palustris, Longleaf Pine, Southern Pine

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).

image of Pinus palustris, Longleaf Pine, Southern Pine

JK Marlow    jkm180505_1711

May    Pike County    GA

Camp Thunder VPA

image of Pinus palustris, Longleaf Pine, Southern Pine

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).

image of Pinus palustris, Longleaf Pine, Southern Pine

JK Marlow    jkm180505_1720

May    Pike County    GA

Camp Thunder VPA

image of Pinus palustris, Longleaf Pine, Southern Pine

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).

image of Pinus palustris, Longleaf Pine, Southern Pine

Keith Bradley    kab_pinus_palustris_73920

May    Orange County    FL

Wekiwa Springs State Park

image of Pinus palustris, Longleaf Pine, Southern Pine

Steve Marlow    snm090516_034

May    Charleston County    SC

Francis Marion National Forest

image of Pinus palustris, Longleaf Pine, Southern Pine

Alan S. Weakley    asw_10231836649435228

June        

The state tree of North Carolina.

image of Pinus palustris, Longleaf Pine, Southern Pine

Alan S. Weakley    asw_10231869846385131

July    Hoke County    NC

image of Pinus palustris, Longleaf Pine, Southern Pine

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_pinus_palustris

August        

image of Pinus palustris, Longleaf Pine, Southern Pine

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).

image of Pinus palustris, Longleaf Pine, Southern Pine

JK Marlow    jkm161001_021

September    Chesterfield County    SC

Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge

image of Pinus palustris, Longleaf Pine, Southern Pine

JK Marlow    jkm161001_023

September    Chesterfield County    SC

Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge

This year's seedling.

image of Pinus palustris, Longleaf Pine, Southern Pine

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).

image of Pinus palustris, Longleaf Pine, Southern Pine

JK Marlow    jkm161001_773

September    Chesterfield County    SC

Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge

image of Pinus palustris, Longleaf Pine, Southern Pine

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_pinus_palustris_2

November        

image of Pinus palustris, Longleaf Pine, Southern Pine

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_pinus_palustris_26

November        

image of Pinus palustris, Longleaf Pine, Southern Pine

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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1088

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

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LEAVES:
Evergreen
Needles 10-18" long
Needles 3 per bundle

"FLOWER":
Winter/Spring
what
Unisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Cone

 

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