PINACEAE

Pinus serotina Michaux. Subgenus: Pinus. Section: Trifoliae. Subsection: Australes. Pocosin Pine, Pond Pine, Marsh Pine, Black Pine. Phen: Apr; Aug (or at any time of year in response to fire). Hab: Peaty soils of pocosins, swamps of small blackwater streams, sometimes a component of very wet pine savannas over an herbaceous groundlayer, but usually associated with dense pocosin shrubs. Dist: A Southeastern Coastal Plain endemic: s. NJ south to n. FL and se. AL, restricted to the Coastal Plain.

ID notes: Even when well-developed, the trunk is typically twisted and gnarled, helping to distinguish it from P. taeda.

Origin/Endemic status: Endemic

Syn: = C, F, Fl1, FNA2, G, K1, K3, K4, RAB, S, S13, Tat, Va, WH3, Price (1989), Ward (1963); = Pinus rigida Mill. ssp. serotina (Michx.) Clausen

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