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|accepted_name=Pinus monticola
|accepted_authority=Douglas ex D. Don in Lambert
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|title=in Lambert,Descr. Pinus [ed. 3]
|place=2: unnumbered page between 144 and 145. 1832
|year=1832
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|common_names=Western white pine;pin argenté
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|name=Strobus monticola
|authority=(Douglas ex D. Don) Rydberg
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|hierarchy=Pinaceae;Pinus;Pinus monticola
|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 monticola]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees </b>to 70m; trunk to 2.5m diam., straight; crown narrowly conic, becoming broad and flattened. <b>Bark</b> gray, distinctly platy, plates scaly. <b>Branches</b> nearly whorled, spreading-ascending; twigs slender, pale red-brown, rusty puberulent and slightly glandular (rarely glabrous), aging purple-brown or gray, smooth. <b>Buds</b> ellipsoid or cylindric, rust-colored, 0.4–0.5cm, slightly resinous. <b>Leaves</b> 5 per fascicle, spreading to ascending, persisting 3–4 years, 4–10cm × 0.7–1mm, straight, slightly twisted, pliant, blue-green, abaxial surface without evident stomatal lines, adaxial surfaces with evident stomatal lines, margins finely serrulate, apex broadly to narrowly acute; sheath 1–1.5cm, shed early. <b>Pollen</b> cones ellipsoid, 10–15mm, yellow. <b>Seed</b> cones maturing in 2 years, shedding seeds and falling soon thereafter, clustered, pendent, symmetric, lance-cylindric to ellipsoid-cylindric before opening, broadly lanceoloid to ellipsoid-cylindric when open, 10–25cm, creamy brown to yellowish, without purple or gray tints, resinous, stalks to 2cm; umbo terminal, depressed. <b>Seeds</b> compressed, broadly obovoid-deltoid; body 5–7mm, red-brown; wing 2–2.5cm. <b>2n</b> =24.</span><!--

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|habitat=Montane moist forests, lowland fog forests
|elevation=0–3000m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Calif.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Oreg.;Wash.
|discussion=<p>Pinus monticola is the most important western source for matchwood. Its wood lacks the sugary exudates seen in P. lambertiana.</p><!--
--><p>Western white pine (Pinus monticola) is the state tree of Idaho.</p>
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name=Pinus monticola
|author=
|authority=Douglas ex D. Don in Lambert
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Strobus monticola
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|family=Pinaceae
|habitat=Montane moist forests, lowland fog forests
|elevation=0–3000m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Calif.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Oreg.;Wash.
|reference=None
|publication title=in Lambert,Descr. Pinus [ed. 3]
|publication year=1832
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|genus=Pinus
|species=Pinus monticola
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