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
  
• yellow pine   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – 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
  
• pino giallo   (Source: Mult Glossary Trees ) – Italian
  
• pinabete   (Source: HerbSpices ) – Spanish
  
• pino real   (Source: F NAmer ) – Spanish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide NRCS Cons Pl Mat 2002)
  
• Environmental: 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.]

• also cultivated

References:

• Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature.
• Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. 1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning. [poisonous].
• Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds. 1986–1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols.
• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora. [lists as P. ponderosa Lawson].
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
• Englert, J. M. et al. 2002. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. [lists as P. ponderosa Douglas ex P. Lawson & Lawson].
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• International Seed Testing Association. 1971. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 2. Trees.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. [lists as P. ponderosa P. Lawson & Lawson].
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. [poisonous].
• Lauria, F. 1996. The identity of Pinus ponderosa Douglas ex C. Lawson (Pinaceae). Linzer Biol. Beitr. 28:99–1052.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1978. Important forest trees of the United States.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541. [lists as P. ponderosa Douglas ex Lawson].
• Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system (on-line resource).
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Silba, J. 1986. Encyclopaedia Coniferae. Phytologia Mem. 8:158.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Pinus ponderosa.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Pinus ponderosa.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Pinus ponderosa.

Check other web resources for Pinus ponderosa P. Lawson & C. Lawson:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• 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 (on-line resource). 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.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• 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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