Pinus strobus L.
Other common names: Northern pine, Weymouth pine, American white pine, American deal pine, soft deal pine, spruce pine.
Habitat and range: The white pine native in this country occurs in woods from Canada south to Georgia and Iowa.
Description: This large, handsome evergreen tree is sometimes 200 feet in height, with horizontal branches. The slender pale-green leaves or needles are borne five in a sheath and are from 2 to 5 inches long. The flowers are inconspicuous, and the drooping, cylindrical, cigar-shaped, resinous cones are about 5 inches long and about 1 inch in thickness until in fall when the scales spread out to permit the seeds to fall out. It requires two seasons for the cones to mature.
Part used: The inner bark.
