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Pinus strobus
Also called Weymouth Pine, Northern White Pine, Soft Pine, White Pine
Eastern white pine is a large evergreen conifer native to eastern North America, grown as an ornamental tree in gardens and parks. It is low-maintenance and fast-growing as a specimen tree, and can be sheared into a hedge.
Pinus strobus, commonly called the eastern white pine, northern white pine, white pine, Weymouth pine (British), and soft pine is a large pine native to eastern North America. It occurs from Newfoundland, Canada, west through the Great Lakes region to southeastern Manitoba and Minnesota, United States, and south along the Appalachian Mountains and upper Piedmont to northernmost Georgia and, very rarely, in some of the higher elevations in northeastern Alabama. It is listed as rare or vulnerable (S3) in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky., and as imperiled in Manitoba.
The Haudenosaunee maintain the tree as the central symbol of their multinational confederation, calling it the "Tree of Peace", where the Seneca use the name o'sóä' and the Mohawk people call it onerahtase'ko:wa.
P. strobus is cultivated by plant nurseries as an ornamental tree, for planting in gardens and parks. The species is low-maintenance and rapid-growing as a specimen tree. With regular shearing, it can also be trained as a hedge. Some cultivars are used in bonsai.
P. strobus is widely distributed across the Great Lakes region, New England and Canada's Maritime Provinces, and along most of the Appalachian Mountain ranges. It is a irregular but frequently important component of cool-temperate, hemiboreal and southern-mid boreal forests of eastern North America. It achieves highest abundance on well-drained or sandy soils and in humid climates, but can also grow in boggy areas and rocky highlands.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pinus strobus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
