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Pinus resinosa, photographed by an iNaturalist contributor
(c) Tim Lehman, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · CC BY-NC
#259 most planted

Pinus resinosa

Red pine · also Norway pine, American red pine, Canadian red pine

ConiferEvergreen
6,047
trees mapped
0.06%
of all named trees
18
cities
12 in
median trunk (30 cm, 5,946 measured)

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Pinus resinosa, also known as red pine or Norway pine, is a conifer native to Eastern North America, ranging from the Great Lakes region to Manitoba and Newfoundland. It is an adaptable and valuable forestry species, characterized by low genetic diversity within its population.

Where it grows

Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.

  1. Ottawa · Canada
    2,670—11 in
  2. Halifax · Canada
    835—15 in
  3. Montreal · Canada
    4888.9 yr9.1 in
  4. Ajax · Canada
    409—12 in
  5. Toronto · Canada
    362—12 in
  6. Boston · United States
    323—15 in
  7. Quebec City · Canada
    25316 yr11 in
  8. Burlington · United States
    156—11 in
  9. New York City · United States
    149—10 in
  10. Longueuil · Canada
    131—12 in
  11. Mississauga · Canada
    111—9.8 in
  12. Moncton · Canada
    79—12 in
  13. Kingston · Canada
    32—3.9 in
  14. Winnipeg · Canada
    23—7.5 in
  15. Denver · United States
    16—9.0 in
  16. Burlington, ON · Canada
    5—14 in
  17. Calgary · Canada
    3—8.3 in
  18. Victoria · Canada
    2—15 in

Traits

Form
Conifer
Foliage
Evergreen

Trunk diameters across every city: median 12 in, mean 12 in, 90th percentile 17 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 Broadleaf & Mixed Forests

  • Eastern Canadian Forest-Boreal transition
  • Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests
  • New England-Acadian forests
  • Southern Great Lakes forests
  • Western Great Lakes forests

Other Pinus in the catalogue

51 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.

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