Taxon: Pinus ponderosa P. Lawson & C. Lawson

See also subordinate taxa:

• Pinus ponderosa var. ponderosa (no accessions)
• Pinus ponderosa var. scopulorum (no accessions)

Common names:

• ponderosa pine   (Source: F NAmer ) – English   [Pinus ponderosa var. ponderosa]
  
• ponderosa pine   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• Rocky Mountain ponderosa pine   (Source: F NAmer ) – English   [Pinus ponderosa var. scopulorum]
  
• western yellow pine   (Source: Trees US ) – English
  
• xi huang song   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• pin à bois lourd   (Source: HerbSpices ) – French
  
• pin jaune du Nouveau Monde   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – French   [Pinus ponderosa var. ponderosa]
  
• pitchpin à bois lourd   (Source: HerbSpices ) – French
  
• Gelbkiefer   (Source: Zander ed14 ) – German
  
• pinabete   (Source: HerbSpices ) – Spanish
  
• pino real   (Source: F NAmer ) – Spanish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental; shade/shelter   (fide NRCS Cons Pl Mat 2002)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury; Cooper & Johnson ed2)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Pinus ponderosa from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

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)
  Western Canada: Canada - British Columbia [s.]
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Nebraska, North Dakota [w.], Oklahoma, South Dakota
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah
  Mexico [n.]

• cultivated elsewhere

References:

• Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature. (Ency WTimber)
• Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds. 1986–1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols. (HerbSpices)
• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora. (Intermt F) [lists as P. ponderosa Lawson].
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage. (Zander ed14)
• Englert, J. M. et al. 2002. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators. (NRCS Cons Pl Mat)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer) [lists as P. ponderosa Douglas ex P. Lawson & Lawson].
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2) [lists as P. ponderosa P. Lawson & Lawson].
• Lauria, F. 1996. Linzer Biol. Beitr. 28:999–1052.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1978. Important forest trees of the United States. (AH 519)
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541. (Trees US) [lists as P. ponderosa Douglas ex Lawson].
• Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system - on-line resource. (Can Poison Pl)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Silba, J. 1986. Encyclopaedia Coniferae. Phytologia Mem. 8:158.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Pinus ponderosa.

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

Check other databases for Pinus ponderosa P. Lawson & C. Lawson:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• 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
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority for Pinus ponderosa cultivars
• 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:

• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• 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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