Virginia Pine, Scrub Pine

I love all pine trees! This species usually is one of the scrubby pines, but it can be a somewhat tall, sort of majestic, though irregula...Read Morer in habit, pine tree. Very similar to Jack Pine that grows much farther north and west. I bought one from a native plant nursery and planted it in my backyard in se PA in a good quality clay soil that is barely acid of pH 6.9, and it has been doing well for about 17 years. My specimen is one of those that turns yellowish in winter; they don't all do that. This pine grows wild in different spots of lower nutrient, acid, dry soils around in the Mid-Atlantic of Long Island in New York, to central Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, plus around the Appalachian Region down to northern Alabama & Mississippi.

Grows fine in southeastern Oklahoma. Very drought hardy but died during the 2011 drought.

From Musser Forests website: Also known as Jersey Pine or Poverty Pine. Grows 15 to 40 feet. Open growth habit. Needles are yellow green ...Read Moreto dark green, 1 1/2 to 3 inches in length. Plant on poor, dry, heavy soil where other plants will not grow. Often used in southern areas for Christmas tree production.
Zone: 4-8
Height: 15-40 Feet

A fairly shrubby, scraggledy small to medium sized pine tree of the South Central states. It is commonly found in poor soils and old fiel...Read Moreds.

It has sturdy, flat sided 2" to 3" needles, and half inch branches are tough, fiberous and difficult to break.

The cones are 2" to 3" long and usually egg shaped and remain on the tree for a long time. The thorns are straight tipped and are 1/16' to 1/8" long.