Calflora: Pinus coulteri

Pinus coulteri D. Don

Coulter pine, big cone pine, bull pine, pitch pine

Pinus coulteri, a gymnosperm, is a tree that is native to California and is found only slightly beyond California borders.

Communities:	Yellow Pine Forest, Foothill Woodland
Affinity to serpentine soil: 1.3 (weak indicator / indifferent) [Safford et al 2005]
Habitat:	slopes [Walker]
Elevation:	between 90 and 2660 meters
Family:	PINACEAE
Related:	See a list of other species in the genus Pinus found in California.

Accepted by TJM2 + PLANTS + JM93

Other Names:
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Pinus ponderosa ssp. coulteri

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Records by County, with approximate record counts in the form: TOTAL / CCH. Click county name to view records.

CCH: records provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria.

Information about Pinus coulteri from other sources:

Photos on Picasa / Flickr / Google Images
website references on Google
USDA PLANTS Profile (PICO3)
Nursery availability and horticultural info (what grows with this plant?) on CNPLX
2012 Jepson Manual Treament from the Jepson Herbarium,
University of California, Berkeley
Original Publication citation. on the International Plants Names Index
Search efloras.org (Flora of North America)
Search the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Database