Taxon: Pinus edulis Engelm.

Common names:

• American pinon   (Source: Edible Nuts ) – English
  
• Colorado pinyon   (Source: F CalifJep ) – English
  
• pignolia   (Source: Crops US ) – English
  
• pinyon   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• pinyon pine   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• piñón   (Source: F NAmer ) – Spanish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: seeds   (fide Edible Nuts; F Utah ed2)
  
• Fuels: fuelwood   (fide F Utah ed2)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Oklahoma
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Wyoming [s.w.]
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California [s.e.], Utah
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Chihuahua [n.w.?]

References:

• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora. (Intermt F)
• Duke, J. A. 1989. Handbook of Nuts. CRC Press. (Handb Nuts)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Farjon, A. 1984. Pines, drawings and descriptions of the genus Pinus. (Pines) [= P. cembroides var. edulis (Engelm.) Voss].
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: Higher plants of California. (F CalifJep)
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2) [with two varieties].
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541. (Trees US)
• Magness, J. R. et al. 1971. Food and feed crops of the United States. IR Bull. 1. (Crops US)
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• Perry, J. P., Jr. 1991. The pines of Mexico and Central America. (Pines Mex CAmer)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rosengarten, F. 1984. The book of edible nuts. (Edible Nuts)
• Welsh, S. L. et al. 1993. A Utah flora. (F Utah ed2)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Pinus edulis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Pinus edulis. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Pinus cembroides var. edulis (Engelm.) Voss
  

Check other databases for Pinus edulis Engelm.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Gymnosperm Database of Christopher J. Earle
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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