Scientific name: Pinus virginiana Mill.

Common name: Virginia pine

Family: Pinaceae; Pine

Origin: Native

Habitat: sterile soil

Image: Pinus virginiana Mill., Virginia Pine on Lavender Mountain at the Berry College Campus, Mt. Berry, Georgia; June 20, 2009.

Comments: Ronald M. Harper (1878-1966), a field botanist visited Rome on January 2, 1904 and collected herbarium specimen of Pinus virginiana Mill. (Herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden NY, New York).

Last updated on January 3, 2011.

References :
1. Fernald, Merritt L. Gray's Manual of Botany 8ed. New York: D.Van Nostrand, 1970: 57.
2. The New York Botanical Garden Vascular Plant Types Catalog: (http://www.nybg.org/bsci/hcol/vasc/ ), New York Botanical Garden, 200th Street and Kazimiroff Boulevard Bronx, NY 10458
3. Images by Zvezdana Ukropina-Crawford
4. USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.

Botanical Exploration in Floyd County, Georgia
Plant collections from 1869-1970's from Floyd County, Northwest Georgia, United States