#135 most planted
Pinus contorta
Lodgepole pine · also Shore pine, Twisted pine, Contorta pine
ConiferEvergreen
14,937
trees mapped
0.15%
of all named trees
17
cities
5.9 in
median trunk (15 cm, 14,861 measured)
9.4 yr
median age (30% have a planting date)
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Pinus contorta, also known as lodgepole pine, is an evergreen conifer native to western North America. It thrives near the ocean shore and in dry montane to subalpine forests, but is rare in lowland rainforests.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 11,5932.4%9.4 yr6.3 in
- 2,5320.48%—4.7 in
- 5070.28%—9.0 in
- 990.22%11 yr3.9 in
- 800.03%—9.0 in
- 620.18%—2.8 in
- 190.12%—12 in
- 100.00%36 yr14 in
- 80.00%—2.1 in
- 60.01%5.8 yr2.0 in
- 50.00%32 yr5.9 in
- 50.00%6.4 yr3.2 in
- 40.00%——
- 20.00%—0.6 in
- 20.00%—10 in
- 20.00%—10 in
- 10.00%—2.4 in
Traits
- Form
- Conifer
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Tolerates
- coastal
Trunk diameters across every city: median 5.9 in, mean 6.6 in, 90th percentile 12 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.
Native range
Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.
Temperate Conifer Forests
- Alberta-British Columbia foothills forests
- British Columbia coastal conifer forests
- Central British Columbia Mountain forests
- Central Pacific Northwest coastal forests
- Colorado Rockies forests
- Northern California coastal forests
- Northern Pacific Alaskan coastal forests
- Northern Rockies conifer forests
- Sierra Nevada forests
- South Central Rockies forests
Boreal Forests/Taiga
- Interior Alaska-Yukon lowland taiga
- Northwest Territories taiga
Other Pinus in the catalogue
51 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.
