Plant · P-1009

Loblolly Pine

Pinus taeda

Loblolly pine is a fast-growing, long-lived evergreen conifer of the southeastern coastal plain and piedmont, grown commercially across the region for its cylindrical, arrow-straight trunk and long, twisted, blue-green needles in bundles of three. It grows on adaptable but preferably moist, sandy, acid soil, tolerating both wet ground and drought once established, and readily colonizes cleared or abandoned open ground. Its resin yields turpentine and rosin, and the long needles it sheds are widely gathered as mulch.