Taxon: Pinus strobus L.

Common names:

• eastern white pine   (Source: Trees US ) – English
  
• Weymouth pine   (Source: F BritStace ) – English
  
• white pine   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• bei mei qiao song   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• pin blanc   (Source: HerbSpices ) – French
  
• pin de Lord Weymouth   (Source: HerbSpices ) – French
  
• pin Weymouth   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – French
  
• Strobe   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• Weymouthskiefer   (Source: HerbSpices ) – German
  
• pino strobo   (Source: Mult Glossary Trees ) – Italian
  
• seuteurobeujatnamu   (Source: F Korea ) – Transcribed Korean
  
• weymouthtall   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: agroforestry   (fide AH 654)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide AH 519)
  
• Materials: fiber   (for pulpwood fide AH 519)
  
• Materials: gum/resin   (fide AH 519; HerbSpices)
  
• Materials: wood   (fide AH 519; HerbSpices)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Social: religious/secular   (used as a Christmas tree fide web document)
  

More:

View phytochemical or 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 - New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - Manitoba [s.e.]
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Delaware, Georgia, 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).
• Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature.
• Burns, R. M. & B. H. Honkala, eds. 1990. Silvics of North America: 1. Conifers; 2. Hardwoods. Agriculture Handbook 654.
• Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds. 1986–1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Farjon, A. & B. T. Styles. 1997. Pinus (Pinaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 75:215. [var. chiapensis].
• Gilman, E. F. & D. G. Watson. 1994. Pinus strobus : eastern white pine. [re. christmas tree use].
• 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.
• Krüssmann, G. 1985. Manual of cultivated conifers (English translation of Die Nadelgeholze, ed. 2. 1983).
• 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.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• 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. 8:163.
• Stace, C. 1995. New flora of the British Isles.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. [introduced].
• 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 strobus.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Pinus strobus.

Synonyms:

• (=) Pinus strobus f. prostrata (Rehder ex Beissn.) Fernald & Weath.
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)

Check other web resources for Pinus strobus L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• 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 strobus 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:

• 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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