Pinus contortaDouglas ex Loudon

lodgepole pine

WFO wfo-0000481330 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Pinus contorta, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. a Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-30 / obs. 202171664
Pinus contorta, photographed by Shane Johnson
fig. b Shane Johnson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204746596
Pinus contorta, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. c Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202172408
Pinus contorta, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. d Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202093692
Pinus contorta, photographed by Jens-Christian Svenning
fig. e Jens-Christian Svenning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204034254
Pinus contorta, photographed by Lyrae
fig. f Lyrae, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202707765
Pinus contorta, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. g Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202171977
Pinus contorta, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. h Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202093791

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Also published as 25 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Pinus bolanderi Parl.
  • Pinus bourcieri Carrière
  • Pinus boursieri Carrière
  • Pinus contorta subsp. bolanderi (Parl.) A.E.Murray
  • Pinus contorta subsp. bolanderi (Parl.) Critchf.
  • Pinus contorta subsp. contorta
  • Pinus contorta subsp. latifolia (Engelm.) Critchf.
  • Pinus contorta subsp. murrayana (A.Murray bis & al.) A.E.Murray
  • Pinus contorta subsp. murrayana (A.Murray bis & al.) Critchf.
  • Pinus contorta var. bolanderi (Parl.) Koehne
  • Pinus contorta var. bolanderi (Parl.) Vasey
  • Pinus contorta var. bolanderi (Parl.) Lemmon
  • Pinus contorta var. bourcieri (Carrière) House
  • Pinus contorta var. hendersonii Lemmon
  • Pinus contorta var. yukonensis W.L.Strong
  • Pinus divaricata var. hendersonii (Lemmon) B.Boivin
  • Pinus divaricata var. latifolia (Engelm.) B.Boivin
  • Pinus divaricata var. musci B.Boivin
  • Pinus inops Bong.
  • Pinus macintoshiana P.Lawson
  • Pinus muricata Bol.
  • Pinus murrayana A.Murray bis & al.
  • Pinus murrayana var. sargentii Mayr
  • Pinus tamrac A.Murray bis

and 1 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.