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Your search found 22 taxa in the family Pinaceae, Pine family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Eastern White Pine
Look for it in moist to dry forests, bottomlands, dry, rocky ridges in humid gorges
Common (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Longleaf Pine, Georgia Pine, Southern Pine
Look for it formerly throughout the Coastal Plain, Sandhills & lower Piedmont, on a wide variety of soils (sandy, loamy, clayey, or peaty) from very dry to very wet conditions, in savannas, woodlands, & forests affected by relatively frequent natural (lightning-caused) fires (likely augmented by native Americans), now reduced to less than a tenth of its former abundance by a variety of forces, including turpentining, timbering, free-range hogs, fire suppression, and "site conversion" by foresters to other trees
Formerly widespread, now rare (but common locally), endemic to SE Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name:
Slash Pine
Look for it . It is native in wet pine flatwoods and maritime forests of GA & SC, and extensively planted in GA, SC & NC in silvicultural plantations on a wide variety of soils, many of them unsuitable for its successful growth
Common
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Loblolly Pine, Old Field Pine
Look for it in forests, fields, pine plantations
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Pond Pine, Pocosin Pine, Marsh Pine
Look for it in peaty soils of pocosins, swamps of small blackwater streams
Common (rare in Piedmont), endemic to the Southeastern Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Pitch Pine
Look for it primarily on dry ridges, more or less requiring fire for its reproduction, less commonly in peat soils of mountain bogs (and then often at elevations of 800-1000m) and also scattered through a variety of forest types
Common in NC Mountains, rare in Coastal Plain, uncommon elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Table Mountain Pine, Burr Pine, Hickory Pine
Look for it on dry ridges, cliffs, shale barrens, occurring at least up to 1550m. Usually requiring fire for its reproduction
Common (rare in Piedmont), endemic to the Central & Southern Appalachians
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Shortleaf Pine, Yellow Pine, Rosemary Pine
Look for it on dry rocky ridges & slopes, sandhills, old fields, forests, generally in rather xeric sites, but also occurring in mesic to even wet sites
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Spruce Pine, Walter's Pine
Look for it in bottomland forests, rich moist soils
Common (uncommon in SC, rare in Piedmont)
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Virginia Pine, Scrub Pine, Jersey Pine
Look for it in dry forests & woodlands, esp on slopes & ridges, also common in certain areas as a weedy successional tree on nearly any kind of site
Common (rare in Coastal Plain), endemic to Central & Southern Appalachians
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name:
Sand Pine
Look for it in Florida scrub, and dry sands where planted outside of its native range, for instance widely planted in pulp plantations in FL and s. GA, experimentally planted as far north as NC (and persisting and naturalizing)
Uncommon in GA Coastal Plain, rare in Carolinas. Experimentally planted as far north as NC
Native: Florida
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Red Pine
Look for it in high elevation forests, in pine plantations, and persisting after silvicultural planting
Native: north of the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Red Spruce, He Balsam
Look for it . It is common to dominant in spruce and spruce-fir forests at high elevations, scattered in northern hardwood forests, heath balds, boulderfield forests, ridges, and rarely coves, also in bogs or swampy forests at lower elevations (down to about 1000m), ranging in moisture tolerance from dry ridges (though these are often fog-bathed) to saturated peats. Also sometimes planted and naturalized
Uncommon
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Norway Spruce
Look for it to be persisting and escaping from forestry plantations at moderate or high elevations
Rare
Non-native: northern Europe
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Common Name:
Eastern Hemlock, Canada Hemlock
Look for it in a wide variety of habitats in the mountains, most typically & abundantly in moist sites in ravines or coves along streams, but likely to be found in all but the driest habitats between 300 & 1500m
Common in Mountains, rare in Piedmont
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Carolina Hemlock
Look for it primarily in open forests on ridge tops, rocky bluffs, or gorge walls, generally in drier and rockier sites than T. canadensis, but the two sometimes grow in close proximity or even intermixed in humid gorges
Rare, endemic to a narrow area of the Southern Appalachians
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Fraser Fir, She Balsam, Southern Balsam
Look for it in high elevation forests, from about 1500-2037m
Rare (a Southern Appalachian endemic)
Native to North Carolina, naturalized in Georgia
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Common Name:
Balsam Fir, Northern Balsam, Canada Balsam
Look for it in high elevation forests and cliffs
Native: north of the Carolinas
Rare
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Eastern Tamarack, Eastern Larch
Look for it in bogs and swamps
Native: north of the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Deodar cedar
Waifs (frequently planted & rarely escaped to suburban woodlands)
Non-native: Asia
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Common Name:
European Larch
Look for it in forests. Planted as an ornamental and experimentally as a forest tree, persisting and sometimes escaping in the high mountains of NC
Rare
Non-native: Europe
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