Lodgepole Pine
Pinus contorta
A slim, straight-trunked pine forming dense fire-adapted forests across the high country, its cones often sealed with resin until heat opens them. A pioneer after burns.
- Family
- Pinaceae
- Type
- tree
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 8–10 ft
- Spacing
- 4–6 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- dry, moist, wet
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral
- Bloom
- June
- Bloom colors
- yellow
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, mammals
- Caterpillar hosts
- ~201 butterfly & moth species
- Landscape uses
- specimen
- Native states
- AK, CA, CO, ID, MT, NE, NV, OR, SD, UT, WA, WY
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- Pinyon Pine (Pinus edulis)