Jack pine
For the painting by Tom Thomson, see The Jack Pine. Jack pine A young jack pine Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Division: Pinophyta Class: Pinopsida Order: Pinales Family: Pinaceae Genus: Pinus Subgenus: Pinus Species: P. banksiana Binomial name Pinus banksiana Lamb. Native range Synonyms [1] [2] [3] Pinus divaricata (Aiton) Dum.Cours. Pinus divaricata (Aiton) Sudw. nom. illeg. Pinus hudsonica Poir. Pinus rupestris Michx.f. Pinus sylvestris var. divaricata Aiton Jack pine ( Pinus banksiana ) is an eastern North American pine. Its native range in Canada is east of the Rocky Mountains from the Mackenzie River in the Northwest Territories to Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, and the north-central and northeast of the United States from Minnesota to Maine, with the southernmost part of the range just into northwest Indiana and northwest Pennsylvania. It is also known as grey pine [4] and scrub pine . [4] [5] In the far west ...