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
- 60–90 ft
- Spacing
- 25–40 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade
- Soil moisture
- moist, wet
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral
- Bloom
- March, April
- Bloom colors
- yellow, brown, green
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, mammals, larval host
- Caterpillar hosts
- ~201 butterfly & moth species
- Landscape uses
- specimen, rain garden
- Native states
- AL, FL, GA, LA, MS, SC