Pinus strobus

Pinaceae Pinus strobus L.

Etymology
Pinus refers to the Latin name for pines.
strobus refers to ‘strobilos’, the Greek word for pine cone; indicating its quite characteristic slender pine cones.

Colloquial Name
Eastern white pine, Weymouth pine

Subordinate Taxa
There exist 2 subordinate taxa for Pinus strobus:

Distribution

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TDWG Codes
7, 71, MAN, 72, NBR, NFL, NFL-NE, NSC, ONT, PEI, QUE, 74, ILL, IOW, MIN, WIS, 75, CNT, INI, MAI, MAS, MIC, NWH, NWJ, NWY, OHI, PEN, RHO, VER, WVA, 78, DEL, GEO, KTY, MRY, NCA, SCA, TEN, VRG, 79, MXC, MXC-PU, MXG, MXG-VC, MXS, MXS-GR, MXS-OA, MXT, MXT-CI, 8, 80, GUA

Habitat
The natural habitats for Pinus strobus are subtropical/tropical dry forests, subtropical/tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical/tropical moist montane forests, temperate forests. The natural elevation is unknown. There are no conifers associated with Pinus strobus that are known of.

USDA Hardiness zone – 3
Pinus strobus is hardy to USDA Zone 3 (Bannister & Neuner, 2001), meaning its frost tolerance lies somewhere in the range of -40C (-40F) to -34.4C (-30F).

Species Continuity
The population trend for Pinus strobus is increasing. There are ongoing threats for Pinus strobus and they are listed as follows:

• 1 Habitat Loss & Degradation
  • 1.1 Agriculture & Forestry
• 2 Overexploitation & Resource Use
  • 2.1 Logging & Wood Harvesting

IUCN Category – LC
According to the IUCN Red List, Pinus strobus has been assigned the status of LC(Least Concern). This means that according to the Red List criteria, this species is not qualified as threatened.

Superordinate Taxa
The nearest superordinate taxon for Pinus strobus is Subsect. Strobi. The coordinate taxa for Pinus strobus are therefore:

Pinus strobus is further placed under Pinoideae. Pinus strobus is also placed under Pinaceae.

Cultivars
‘Alba’ , ‘Albospicata’, ‘Amelia’s Dwarf’ , ‘Angel Falls’, ‘Anna Fiele’, ‘Argentea’ , ‘Aurea’, ‘Aureovariegata’ , ‘Baird Cutting Nana’ , ‘Baldwin’, ‘Bayard’ , ‘Bennett Clumpleaf’, ‘Bennett Contorted’, ‘Bennett Fastigiate’, ‘Bennett OD’ , ‘Bennett Dragon’s Eye’ , ‘Beran’ , ‘Bergman’s Mini’ , ‘Bergman’s Pendula Broom’, ‘Bergman’s Sport of Prostrata’ , ‘Bergman’s Variegated’ , ‘Beth’ , ‘Billow’ , ‘Bloomers Dark Globe’, ‘Blue Jay’, ‘Blue Mist’ , ‘Blue Shag’ , ‘Brevifolia’ , ‘Brevifolia Elf’, ‘Buck’s Broom’, ‘Cedar Ridge Broom’, ‘Cesarini’ , ‘Cockerton’ , ‘Cockerton No. 1’ , ‘Cockerton No. 4’ , ‘Cockerton Special’ , ‘Coffee Run’ , ‘Colrain Road’ , ‘Colson’s Nest’ , ‘Compacta’, ‘Compressa’, ‘Coney Island’, ‘Connecticut Slate’, ‘Contorta’, ‘Contorta Nana’ , ‘Contorta Seedling’, ‘Contorted Dwarf’ , ‘Cortland Rose’, ‘Crazy’ , ‘Curly Globe’ , ‘Curtis Dwarf’, ‘David’, ‘Densa’ , ‘Diggy’, ‘Donelly’, ‘Dove’s Dwarf’, ‘E.R.’, ‘Edel’ , ‘Ed’s Broom’, ‘Elf’ , ‘Elkin’s Dwarf’ , ‘Elmwood’ , ‘Elwood’, ‘Fastigiata’, ‘Flat Top’, ‘Fructata’, ‘General Pulaski’, ‘Glauca’, ‘Glauca Nana’, ‘Globosa’, ‘Golden Candles’ , ‘Golden Showers’, ‘Goldie’ , ‘Gold Painted’, ‘Gold Weeper’ , ‘Gracilis Viridis’, ‘Grange’, ‘Greenlace’ , ‘Green Shadow’ , ‘Green Twist’, ‘Greg’ , ‘Hazel’s Clumpy’, ‘Helen’ , ‘Hereford Dragon’ , ‘Hershey’, ‘Hillside Gem’ , ‘Hillside Weeper’ , ‘Hillside Winter Gold’, ‘Himmelblau’ , ‘Horsford’ , ‘Horsham’ , ‘Inversa’, ‘J4 Compact’, ‘Jericho’, ‘John’s Find’, ‘Julian Pott’ , ‘Julian’s Dwarf’ , ‘Kane’ , ‘KBN Variegated’, ‘Kelsey’ , ‘Krause’s W.B.’ , ‘Krügers Lilliput’, ‘Laird’s Broom’ , ‘Lasting Beauty’, ‘Lenore’ , ‘Lilliput’, ‘Little Giant’, ‘Little Suzy’ , ‘Lone Pine Broom’, ‘Louie’, ‘Lovable Fuzz Ball’, ‘Lucáš’, ‘Macopin’, ‘Martin’s Broom’, ‘Mary Butler’ , ‘Merrimack’, ‘Mill Race’ , ‘Millstream’ , ‘Minima’, ‘Mini Twists’, ‘Minuta’ , ‘Mirco’ , ‘Monophylla’, ‘Monophylla’ , ‘Mt Washington’, ‘Nana’, ‘Nana Weiss’ , ‘Nana Secrest’, ‘Nana Variegata’ , ‘Nana Weiss’, ‘National Life’ , ‘Niagara Falls’, ‘Nicolet’s Broom’, ‘Nivea’ , ‘Northway Broom’, ‘Nova’ , ‘Old Softie’ , ‘Oliver Dwarf’, ‘Ontario’ , ‘Ottawa’, ‘Outreach’, ‘Pacific Sunrise’, ‘Palomino’s Contorted’, ‘Parvifolia’, ‘Paul Waxman’ , ‘Pendula’ , ‘Pine Acres’, ‘Planting Fields’, ‘Porcupine’ , ‘Prostrata’, ‘Pumila’, ‘Pumila Verite’, ‘Pygmaea’, ‘Radiata’ , ‘Raraflora Nana Glauca’ , ‘Redfield’, ‘Reed’s Point’ , ‘Reinshaus’, ‘Rockgards’ , ‘R.E.L. No. 3’, ‘Rowes Multineedle’, ‘Sand Castle’, ‘Sarah Rachel’, ‘Sayville’, ‘Sea Light’ , ‘Sea Urchin’ , ‘Secrest’, ‘Shaggy Dog’, ‘Short Needle’, ‘Slim Gem’, ‘Soft Touch’, ‘South Bridge’, ‘Spingarn’, ‘Spingarn’s Witches Broom’, ‘Squiggles’ , ‘Stoneybrook’ , ‘Stowe Pillar’, ‘Strattonville’ , ‘Syd’s Find’ , ‘Tabuliformis’, ‘Tiny Kurls’, ‘Torulosa’ , ‘Trautmann’, ‘Twisted Weeper’, ‘Twombly’s Golden New Growth’, ‘UConn’, ‘UConn Gold’ , ‘Umbraculifera’, ‘Uncatena’, ‘Uncle Stuart’, ‘Variegata’, ‘Vercurve’, ‘Verkade’s Broom’ , ‘Viridis’ , ‘Viridis Pendula’, ‘Waterdam’, ‘Wendy’ , ‘Whetstone’, ‘White Mountain’, ‘Whitstone’, ‘Wiggles’, ‘Windswept’, ‘Winter Gold’ , ‘Witches’ Broom STA’, ‘Witches’ Brew’, ‘Wüstemeyer’, ‘Wyandanch’,
‘Yoda’