Sugar Pine
Pinus lambertiana
Sugar pine is the tallest and largest of all pines, towering over western mountain forests with cones up to two feet long. A magnificent, long-lived giant for spacious cool-climate sites.
- Family
- Pinaceae
- Type
- tree
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 100–180 ft
- Spacing
- 30–50 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- moist, dry
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral
- Bloom
- May, June
- Bloom colors
- yellow, brown, green
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, mammals, larval host
- Caterpillar hosts
- ~201 butterfly & moth species
- Landscape uses
- specimen
- Native states
- CA, NV, OR