Eastern White Pine Scientific Name: Pinus strobus
Description: A handsome plumy-foliaged, straight-stemmed evergreen tree 50-75' and occasionally 180' high, with a trunk diameter of 2-5'; the dark, perpendicularly seamed gray brown bark is rough, rather small segments; the wide-spreading branches straight and horizontal.
Habitat: light sandy soil
Range: from Newfoundland west to Minnesota and Iowa, and south to northern Georgia.
Type: Tree Source:Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs by F. Schuyler Mathews
Photograph: Linda Haugen, USDA Forest Service from www.forestryimages.org. |
