Species: Pinus contorta var. latifolia
Tall Lodgepole Pine
Species
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Classification
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Coniferophyta
Class
Pinopsida
Order
Pinales
Family
Pinaceae
Genus
Pinus
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Classification
Other Global Common Names
Rocky Mountain lodgepole pine - interior lodgepole pine - pin tordu latifolié - tall lodgepole pine
Informal Taxonomy
Plants, Vascular - Conifers and relatives
Formal Taxonomy
Plantae - Coniferophyta - Pinopsida - Pinales - Pinaceae - Pinus - (Flora of North America 1993).
Ecology and Life History
Short General Description
´ 1--2(--3)mm, yellow-green, apex narrowly acute to short-acuminate. Seed cones maturing in 2 years, then shedding seeds or variously serotinous, long-persistent, strongly asymmetric, mostly recurved, seldom whorled, mostly in 2s or solitary, mid and lower apophyses mostly much domed.
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G5T5
Global Status Last Reviewed
2009-04-14
Global Status Last Changed
1991-04-02
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
<i>Pinus contorta</i> var. <i>latifolia </i>ranges in western North America from the extreme southern interior of Alaska; central and southern interior of the Yukon Territory; southwestern Northwest Territories; widely distributed throughout the interior of British Columbia; the western boundary, and scattered northern and southeastern occurrences in Alberta; southwestern Saskatchewan; interior areas within Washington and Colorado; eastern Oregon; north and central Idaho; western Montana, western Wyoming; northern Utah and an isolated occurrence in South Dakota.