Spruce Pine
Pinus glabra
Spruce pine is an unusual shade-tolerant Southern pine of moist bottomlands, with soft needles and smooth bark unlike its rugged kin. A graceful evergreen for partly shaded, damp sites.
- Family
- Pinaceae
- Type
- tree
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 90–90 ft
- Spacing
- 30–40 ft apart
- Light
- part shade
- Soil moisture
- wet
- Soil pH
- acidic
- Bloom
- April, May
- Bloom colors
- green
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, mammals, songbirds, larval host
- Caterpillar hosts
- ~201 butterfly & moth species
- Landscape uses
- border, foundation, hedge or screen, naturalizing
- Native states
- AL, FL, GA, LA, MS, SC
Related native plants
More Pinus species
- Eastern White Pine (Pinus strobus)
- Ponderosa Pine (Pinus ponderosa)
- Pitch Pine (Pinus rigida)
- Lodgepole Pine (Pinus contorta)
- Longleaf Pine (Pinus palustris)
- Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda)