DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Pinus glabra | Spruce Pine 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Spruce pine is found on the Coastal Plain of the southeastern United
States from southern South Carolina south to north-central and
northwestern Florida and west to Mississippi and southeastern Louisiana
[3,13].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES12  Longleaf - slash pine
   FRES13  Loblolly - shortleaf pine
   FRES14  Oak - pine
   FRES16  Oak - gum - cypress


STATES : 
     AL  FL  GA  LA  MS  SC


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     CUIS  NATR  ROCR


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
NO-ENTRY


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K089  Black Belt
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest
   K112  Southern mixed forest
   K113  Southern floodplain forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    80  Loblolly pine - shortleaf pine
    81  Loblolly pine
    82  Loblolly pine - hardwood
    84  Slash pine
    85  Slash pine - hardwood
    89  Live oak
    91  Swamp chestnut oak - cherrybark oak


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Spruce pine tends to be a scattered component of the overstory in
southern mixed-hardwood forests.  It is rarely found in pure stands and
is not cited as a dominant tree in any association.  Its range overlaps
that of other pines, but it usually occurs with the following hardwood
species:  magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora), American beech (Fagus
grandiflora), gum (Nyssa spp.), hickory (Carya spp.), sweetgum
(Liquidambar styraciflua), yellow-poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera),
water oak (Quercus nigra), Shumard oak (Q. shumardii), cherrybark oak
(Q. pagoda), swamp chestnut oak (Q. michauxii), live oak (Q.
virginiana), and numerous other tree and shrub species of bottomlands
[6,9,16].

Related categories for Species: Pinus glabra | Spruce Pine