coniferous trees in your city/town/metro (how much, live in)

[californio sur]

Originally Posted by Gnutella

Georgia has a lot of pine trees on steroids. I'm talking monsters over 100' tall.

Pennsylvania is decidedly more deciduous, and whatever pine trees there might be are smaller than those found in the South.

I would have figured that it would be the other way around with more pines to the north and less in the South.

[johnatl]

Originally Posted by californio sur

I would have figured that it would be the other way around with more pines to the north and less in the South.

Nope. There are some in my neighborhood (a pretty urban area built out for over 45+ years) that are way over 200 feet tall.

[LauraC]

New Hampshire has some nice big ones. Long Island, NY (the Pine Barrens) has some scraggly ones. Tennessee has an assortment.

[knrstz]

I lived in SW Fla and in areas not yet developed, pine trees are almost all that grows.

[californio sur]

Originally Posted by knrstz

I lived in SW Fla and in areas not yet developed, pine trees are almost all that grows.

I've been to Miami several times & once to Tampa and Orlando yet never noticed pine trees except along highway 75 there were lots of pine trees. It seems in the Florida metro areas that pines are not planted that much. Lots of palm trees however.

[southernnaturelover]

Originally Posted by californio sur

I would have figured that it would be the other way around with more pines to the north and less in the South.

In the deep South we have Longleaf pines, Slash pines, Loblolly pines, and Spruce pines. All typically reach over 100' tall.

Longleaf pines evolved in a fire adapted habitat which is thought to have the most diverse fauna of anywhere in North America. There are some massive pines around Eglin AFB in the Florida panhandle.

[Stars&StripesForever]

Atlanta area:

Deciduous: 63%
Coniferous Evergreen 37%

State of Georgia:

Deciduous: 52%
Coniferous Evergreen: 48%

State by region:

North Georgia (including metro Atlanta):

Deciduous: 77%
Coniferous Evergreen: 23%

Middle Georgia:

Deciduous: 54%
Coniferous Evergreen: 46%

South Georgia:

Deciduous: 28%
Coniferous Evergreen: 72%

[jtur88]

East of the mountains, from Kansas to the Rio Grande, the Red Cedar is the only native species that most people would classify as an "evergreen", that is, a "Christmas tree" with needles and seed cones. Eastern species of conifers begin to appear in East Texas, with stands of Loblolly and Yellow pine, between Dallas and Houston and eastward.

So, here, any such conifers would occur only as landscaping exotics, except for a few scrubby patches of Red Cedar, which never grow as tall, vertical trees.

[seanm83]

I would say the south in general has more pine/evergreen and the north has more deciduous overall. Also the North has different types of evergreen such as spruce, hemlock, fir i think and white pine, while down south is loblolly, long-leaf, short-leaf, slash, etc. I think the majority of the pine barrens is pitch pine. I also noticed driving around the DC area they have a lot of scots pine i think they are called around northern VA and MD. That seems to be the transition area from Northern flora to Southern. Of course down in NC we have some white pine and scots pine too as well as spruce but i don't think we have nearly as much.

[seanm83]

And then out west you have the ponderosa pine, pinon, and some different types altogether. Interesting subject.