Pinus serotinaMichx.

Marsh PinePocosin PinePond Pinepond pine

WFO wfo-0000481497 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Pinus serotina, photographed by Morgan Freese
fig. a Morgan Freese, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-01 / obs. 193340090
Pinus serotina, photographed by Morgan Freese
fig. b Morgan Freese, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193346319
Pinus serotina, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. c Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191225986
Pinus serotina, photographed by Ryan Watson
fig. d Ryan Watson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185414821
Pinus serotina, photographed by Ryan Watson
fig. e Ryan Watson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180296482
Pinus serotina, photographed by Ryan Watson
fig. f Ryan Watson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179161283
Pinus serotina, photographed by Morgan Freese
fig. g Morgan Freese, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 125301864
Pinus serotina, photographed by Morgan Freese
fig. h Morgan Freese, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 125299891

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Pinus serotina is native: Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia AlabamaFloridaGeorgiaMarylandNew JerseyNorth CarolinaSouth CarolinaVirginia Delaware
Native distribution of Pinus serotina, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Delaware DEL
Florida FLA
Georgia GEO
Maryland MRY
New Jersey NWJ
North Carolina NCA
South Carolina SCA
Virginia VRG

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 5 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Pinus alopecuroides Gordon
  • Pinus rigida subsp. serotina (Michx.) Engelm.
  • Pinus rigida subsp. serotina (Michx.) R.T.Clausen
  • Pinus rigida var. serotina (Michx.) Mill.
  • Pinus rigida var. serotina (Michx.) Loudon ex Hoopes

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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