Pinus attenuata - Knobcone pine

Knobcone pine (Pinus attenuata) is a small evergreen tree of California’s closed-cone pine forests, usually staying 15 to 20 feet tall, that struggles alone but grows well in groves with oaks, pines, cottonwoods, or firs.¹ It grows 5-15 m tall and 5-10 m wide.¹

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 6¹
• Hardiness zone 7¹
• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹
• Hardiness zone 10¹
• Well drained soil¹

Type

• Pinus spp. - Pine
• Tree
• Evergreen

Functions

• Flammable²

Dimension	At maturity
Height (m)	5-15
Diameter (m)	5-10

Footnotes

1. Pinus attenuata, Knobcone Pine | Las Pilitas Nursery Native Plant Database ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸

2. Leaf burn times of California native plants, Las Pilitas Nursery, 2005 propane-torch ignition trial, live-leaf ignition time 15 seconds ↩