Calflora: Pinus monophylla

Pinus monophylla Torrey & Fremont

Oneneedle pinyon pine, nut pine, single leaf pinyon, single leaf pinyon pine

Pinus monophylla, a gymnosperm, is a tree that is native to California and is also found outside of California, but is confined to western North America.

Communities:	Pinyon-Juniper Woodland, Foothill Woodland
Elevation:	between 0 and 9000 feet
Family:	PINACEAE
Related:	See a list of other species in the genus Pinus found in California.
	This is a parent record; distribution data is an aggregate of data for subspecies and varieties: Pinus monophylla var. fallax Pinus monophylla var. monophylla

Name Status:

Accepted by TJM2 + PLANTS + JM93

Other Names:
(according to)

PLANTS:	Pinus californiarum
PLANTS:	Pinus edulis var. fallax
PLANTS:	Pinus monophylla ssp. californiarum
PLANTS:	Pinus monophylla ssp. fallax
PLANTS:	Pinus monophylla var. californiarum
PLANTS:	Pinus monophylla var. fallax
PLANTS:	Pinus monophylla var. monophylla

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Distribution by County:

See a detailed Distribution Grid of this plant in California.

A shaded county indicates that there are ocurrence records of this plant within the county.

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	There are specimen records from this county in an herbarium.
	There are documented records, vouchered or confirmed by an expert.
	There are reported records.
	There are reported records available indirectly (eg. in botanical literature).

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

Alameda: 1 / 1 CCH Alpine: 21 / 16 CCH Amador: 1 / 1 CCH Fresno: 23 / 19 CCH Imperial: 2 / 2 CCH Inyo: 91 / 75 CCH Kern: 93 / 77 CCH Los Angeles: 71 / 65 CCH Mono: 65 / 59 CCH Marin: 1 / 0 CCH Plumas: 1 / 0 CCH Riverside: 64 / 51 CCH Santa Barbara: 9 / 6 CCH San Bernardino: 189 / 174 CCH San Diego: 35 / 32 CCH Sierra: 2 / 1 CCH San Luis Obispo: 9 / 7 CCH Tulare: 35 / 26 CCH Tuolumne: 7 / 5 CCH Ventura: 68 / 57 CCH

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

Information about Pinus monophylla from other sources:

Photos on Picasa / Flickr / Google Images
website references on Google
USDA PLANTS Profile (PIMO)
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