Taxon: Pinus rigida Mill.

Common names:

• northern pitch pine   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – English
  
• pitch pine   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• gang song   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• Pechkiefer   (Source: Zander ed14 ) – German
  
• pino rigido   (Source: Mult Glossary Trees ) – Italian
  
• rigida-matsu   (Source: F Korea ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• rigidasonamu   (Source: F Korea ) – Transcribed Korean
  
• styvbarrig tall   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Materials: fiber   (for wood pulp fide AH 519)
  
• Materials: wood   (for wood pulp fide AH 519)
  

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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)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Ontario [s.e.], Quebec [s.]
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Delaware, Georgia [s.], Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• 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.
• Lee, Y. N. 1997. Flora of Korea.
• 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.
• 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. 8:161.
• 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 rigida.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Pinus rigida.

Check other web resources for Pinus rigida Mill.:

• 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
• 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:

• 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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