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PINE FAMILY
(PINACEAE)
 
Bird food:  Seeds are eaten by blue jays, bobwhites, brown thrashers, cardinals, chickadees, doves, goldfinches, juncos, meadowlarks, nuthatches, pine siskins, pine warblers, red-bellied woodpeckers, titmice, towhees, woodpeckers, yellow-rumped warblers, wrens, others
 
Butterfly larval food:  Eastern Pine Elfin, Spicebush Swallowtail
 
Wildlife food:  beavers, chipmunks, fox squirrels, gray squirrels
 
Wildlife shelter:  good cover and nesting, nesting materials; old growth pines provide nesting cavities.
 
 
name
 
area
flower
& fruit
 
season
 
other

Sand pine
  Pinus clausa
NCSnone
cones
 
F
t
Slash pine
  Pinus elliottii
NCSnone
cones
 
F
t
Spruce pine
  Pinus glabra
NCnone
cones
 
F
t
Longleaf pine
  Pinus palustris
NCSnone
cones
 
F
t
Loblolly pine
  Pinus taeda
NCnone
cones
 
F
t
Codes: N=north
C=central
S=south
Sp=spring
Su=summer
F=fall
W=winter
a=annual
b=biennial
p=perennial
s=shrub
t=tree
v=vine
i=invasive
 
ta=toxic to animals
th=toxic to humans

 
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