Limber pine

Limber Pine - Pinus flexilis is specifically found in the subalpine areas of the Rocky Mountains from southwest Alberta Canada south through Colorado and New Mexico into the northern states of Mexico; from mountains in the eastern Pacific Northwest states through the Great Basin states of Nevada and Utah. It is also found in California: in the Eastern Sierra Nevadas; the eastern California White Mountains; and the Southern California San Bernardino Mountains, San Gabriel Mountains, and San Jacinto Mountains of the Transverse Ranges; and a small disjunct population in the Black Hills in South Dakota.

Jesse Perry (1991) described Pinus flexilis from the summit of Cerro Potosí, and in evidence provides a photograph of a P. flexilis cone collected at 3,400 m near the summit. P. flexilis at its current closest approach is a thousand kilometers to the west in the mountains of New Mexico. More

Pinus flexilis is native to North America. Range may be expanded by planting. See states reporting limber pine (opens a new window). More

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