Pitch Pine
Pinus rigida
Summary 7
Pinus rigida, pitch pine, is a small-to-medium sized (6–30 m (20–98 ft)) pine, native to eastern North America. This species occasionally hybridizes with other pine species such as loblolly pine (Pinus taeda), shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata), and pond pine (Pinus serotina); the last is treated as a subspecies of pitch pine by some botanists.
Taxon biology 8
Pinaceae -- Pine family
Silas Little and Peter W. Garrett
The species name of pitch pine (Pinus rigida) means rigid or stiff and refers to both the cone scales (17) and the wide-spreading, sharply pointed needles (5). It is a medium-sized tree with moderately strong, coarse-grained, resinous wood that is used primarily for rough construction and where decay resistance is important. One tree in Maine measured 109 cm (43 in) in d.b.h., 29 m (96 ft) tall, with a crown spread of 15 m (50 ft) (11).
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- (c) dogtooth77, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/53817483@N00/3652080635
- (c) Steven J. Baskauf, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/baskauf/38297
- (c) Ragesoss, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Pitch_Pine_at_Pinnacle_Rock_3.jpg
- (c) Ragesoss, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/Pitch_Pine_at_Pinnacle_Rock_5.jpg
- (c) Ragesoss, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Pitch_Pine_at_Pinnacle_Rock_7.jpg
- (c) Ragesoss, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Pitch_Pine_at_Pinnacle_Rock_6.jpg
- (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinus_rigida
- Adapted by Jared Ownby from a work by (c) Unknown, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/22777611
More Info
- iNat taxon page
- Biodiversity Heritage Library
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- eFloras.org
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- Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
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- Maryland Biodiversity Project
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- USDA PLANTS database
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