Scientific Name: Pinus strobus
Common Name: eastern white pine
Family Name: Pinaceae
Origin: Canada - eastern, U.S. - central, U.S. - northeast
Hardiness Zone: Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C)
Plant Type: Conifer
Mature Size: 22 - 30m x 10 - 15m (height x width)
Habit: Spreading, Upright
Form: Pyramidal - widely
Texture: Fine
Landscape Uses: Forestry
Exposure: Full sun
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Needle-like, Fascicles, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Acicular, Sinuate
Flowers: n/a (male cone), Yellow, Apr-May
Fruit: Cone (winged seeds), Brown, Aug-Sep-Oct, (Persistent)
Key ID Features:
Branches whorled, horizontal with ends sweeping upwards; needles 5 per fascicle, flexible, bluish-green, finely serrated, 5-13cm long x about 1mm wide, with a deciduous sheath; female cones slender, most 8-15cm long, with scales with, apex rounded and tip slightly reflexed; seeds 4-5mm long, with a slender 15-20mm wing; seedlings with 7-10 cotyledons, minutely serrate. <a href ='https://www.conifers.org/pi/Pinus_strobus.php' target='_blank'>Conifers.org</a>