View source for Pinus contorta var. latifolia

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|accepted_name=Pinus contorta var. latifolia
|accepted_authority=Engelmann in S. Watson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in S. Watson,Botany (Fortieth Parallel)
|place=331. 1871
|year=1871
}}
|common_names=Lodgepole pine
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Pinus contorta subsp. latifolia
|authority=(Engelmann) Critchfield
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|hierarchy=Pinaceae;Pinus;Pinus contorta;Pinus contorta var. latifolia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Pinaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Pinus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Pinus contorta]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>variety</small>[[Pinus contorta var. latifolia]]</div></div>
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees </b>to 46m; trunk to 0.8m diam., mostly straight and evenly tapering, or at or above timberline reduced to shrub form by wind shear; crown usually conic at maturity. <b>Bark</b> gray- to red-brown, not evidently furrowed, separating into loose plates. <b>Branches</b> mostly horizontally spreading, not ascending at tip. <b>Leaves</b> (4–)5–8cm × 1–2(–3)mm, yellow-green, apex narrowly acute to short-acuminate. <b>Seed</b> cones maturing in 2 years, then shedding seeds or variously serotinous, long-persistent, strongly asymmetric, mostly recurved, seldom whorled, mostly in 2s or solitary, mid and lower apophyses mostly much domed.</span><!--

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|habitat=Low to high montane forests, often to timberline
|elevation=0–3500m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;N.W.T.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Oreg.;S.Dak.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
|discussion=<p><i>Pinus contorta </i>var.<i> latifolia</i> is fire successional. It is the most wide-ranging and commercially utilized variety. Its poor self-pruning character makes it less desirable for lumber but adequate for mine timbers, fences, and pulpwood.</p><!--
--><p>Lodgepole pine (<i>Pinus contorta </i>var.<i> latifolia</i>) is the provincial tree of Alberta.</p>
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name=Pinus contorta var. latifolia
|author=
|authority=Engelmann in S. Watson
|rank=variety
|parent rank=species
|synonyms=Pinus contorta subsp. latifolia
|basionyms=
|family=Pinaceae
|habitat=Low to high montane forests, often to timberline
|elevation=0–3500m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;N.W.T.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Oreg.;S.Dak.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=in S. Watson,Botany (Fortieth Parallel)
|publication year=1871
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|genus=Pinus
|species=Pinus contorta
|variety=Pinus contorta var. latifolia
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