Pinaceae
Pinus

Pinus palustris Mill.

First published in Gard. Dict., ed. 8.: n.° 14 (1768)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is SE. U.S.A. to E. Texas. It is a tree and grows primarily in the temperate biome.

Descriptions

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/39068/2886222

Conservation
EN - endangered
[IUCN]

Forest, F. et al. 2018. Gymnosperms on the EDGE. Scientific Reports 8: 6053. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-24365-4.

Conservation
Pinus palustris is rated as Endangered (EN) according to IUCN Red List criteria and has received a EDGE score of 0.58, which places it in position 325 on the EDGE Gymnosperm list. It has a Evolutionary Distinctiveness of 4.26, ranked 817. More information on the EDGE Gymnosperm project here https://www.edgeofexistence.org.
[EDGE]

Common Names

unknown
American colophony, American pine, Virginia red pine, amber rosin, black resin, colophony, figured pitch pine, frankincense, gum thus, hard pine, longleaf pine, pale rosin, pitch pine, red pine, scrape, southern pine, swamp pine, thus, thus Americanum, turpentine, yellow resin

Sources

  • EBC Common Names

    • Common Names from Kew's Economic Botany Collection https://www.kew.org/science/collections-and-resources/collections/economic-botany-collection

  • EDGE Gymnosperms

    • EDGE of Existence (Gymnosperms)
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images