Synonyms: Jersey Pine, Scrub Pine.
Virginia Pine generally grows throughout the Piedmont and at lower elevations in the mountains from central Pennsylvania south-westward to northeastern Mississippi, Alabama, and northern Georgia. It also occurs in the Coastal Plain as far north as New Jersey and Long Island, New York. It is present in scattered areas in Ohio, southern Indiana, and Tennessee (Carter and Snow, 1990). It is typically an early-successional species, seeding into old fields and other open areas and then giving way to hardwood species.
Virginia Pine is often scraggly and of poor shape (hence its alternative name “Scrub Pine”), but on some sites, it can grow into a tall, straight, beautiful tree and can live for 120 or more years. It has two, short, twisted needles. The cones are small, numerous, slightly prickly, and often persistent.
Virginia Pine grows throughout most of Maryland, except in Garrett Co., on dry or sterile soils (Brown and Brown, 1972).
Host plant for various moth species including Wenzel's Pitch-blister Moth (Gilligan, Wright, & Gibson, 2008).
Thecodiplosis brachynteroides larvae create galls in needles.
There are 698 records in the project database.
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