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|accepted_name=Pinus virginiana
|accepted_authority=Miller
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gard. Dict., ed. 8
|place=Pinus no. 9. 1768
|year=1768
}}
|common_names=Virginia pine
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Pinaceae;Pinus;Pinus virginiana
|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 virginiana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees </b>to 18m; trunk to 0.5m diam., straight or contorted to erect or leaning; crown irregularly rounded or flattened. <b>Bark</b> gray-brown with irregular, scaly-plated ridges, on upper sections of trunk reddish, scaly. <b>Branches</b> spreading-ascending to spreading-descending; twigs slender, red- or purple-tinged, often glaucous, aging red-brown to gray, rough. <b>Buds</b> ovoid to cylindric, red-brown, 0.6–1cm, resinous or not resinous; scale margins white-fringed. <b>Leaves</b> 2 per fascicle, spreading or ascending, persisting 3–4 years, 2–8cm × 1–1.5mm, strongly twisted, deep to pale yellow-green, all surfaces with inconspicuous stomatal lines, margins serrulate, apex narrowly acute; sheath 0.4–1cm, base persistent. <b>Pollen</b> cones ellipsoid-cylindric, 10–20mm, red-brown or yellow. <b>Seed</b> cones maturing in 2 years, shedding seeds soon thereafter, persisting to 5 years, symmetric, lance-ovoid or lanceoloid before opening, ovoid when open, 3–7(–8)cm, dull red-brown, nearly sessile or on stalks to 1cm, scales rigid, with strong purple-red or purple-brown border on adaxial surface distally; apophyses slightly thickened, slightly elongate; umbo central, low-pyramidal, with slender, stiff prickle. <b>Seeds</b> compressed-obovoid, oblique apically; body 4–7mm, pale brown, mottled darker; wing narrow, to 20mm. <b>2n</b> =24.</span><!--

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|habitat=Dry uplands, sterile sandy or shaly barrens, old fields, and lower mountains
|elevation=0–900m
|distribution=Ala.;Del.;Ga.;Ind.;Ky.;Md.;Miss.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Va.;W.Va.
|discussion=<p><i>Pinus virginiana</i> is weedy and fire successional and often forms large stands. It is mostly too small and too profusely branched to be valued except as pulpwood.</p>
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name=Pinus virginiana
|author=
|authority=Miller
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|family=Pinaceae
|habitat=Dry uplands, sterile sandy or shaly barrens, old fields, and lower mountains
|elevation=0–900m
|distribution=Ala.;Del.;Ga.;Ind.;Ky.;Md.;Miss.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Va.;W.Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Gard. Dict., ed. 8
|publication year=1768
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|genus=Pinus
|species=Pinus virginiana
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