Also called bull pine, ◼︎ blackjack pine and ◼︎ western yellow pine.
Part of
🌲︎ pine genus Pinus
in
🌲︎ cedar / fir / hemlock / larch / pine / spruce family Pinaceae
in
🌲︎ conifer order Pinales.
Native to western coastal and 🗻 mountainous 🇨🇦 Canada and 🇺🇸 USA.
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Invasive > Hawai'i
🌲︎ Provincial tree of Alberta.
In this area (particularly 🇨🇦 Canada AB BC SK, and 🇺🇸 USA AZ CA CO ID MO MT NV NM OR SD UT WA WI WY):
- do not move pine logs, stumps, branches, firewood nor untreated lumber
due to possible infestation by the insect
mountain pine beetle (MPB) Dendroctonus ponderosae,
which carries various species of
🍄︎ fungus / mushroom kingdom Fungi.
Uses by native peoples
(Ethnobotany database)
Pinus hosts caterpillars of 247 species
of butterflies and moths, in some areas.
This plant is also known to be a host for (in areas where invasive)
🐝︎ spotted lanternfly (SLF) Lycorma delicatula.
Lodgepole pine has closed, serotinous cones, that require 🔥︎ fire to open the cones and allow the seeds to 🌱︎ germinate.
It is also the primary tree in 🏞 Yellowstone National Park, where after a century of fire suppression, lodgepole pine was aging out — on the way to being replaced by other species. Until the
🔥︎ Yellowstone fires of 1988
swept through — although the fires killed many adult trees, it allowed the new generation to 🌱︎ germinate and grow.