Pinus sylvestrisL.

Scots pine

WFO wfo-0000481648 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Pinus sylvestris, photographed by Carol Ann Vermeer
fig. a Carol Ann Vermeer, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205439277
Pinus sylvestris, photographed by Виктория Билоус
fig. b Виктория Билоус, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205701545
Pinus sylvestris, photographed by Виктория Билоус
fig. c Виктория Билоус, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205701842
Pinus sylvestris, photographed by Marina Potapova
fig. d Marina Potapova, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205374419
Pinus sylvestris, photographed by Эльмира
fig. e Эльмира, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205081640
Pinus sylvestris, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. f Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204671906
Pinus sylvestris, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. g Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204649871
Pinus sylvestris, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. h Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204159538

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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 113 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 armena K.Koch
  • Pinus armena var. parviflora Fomin
  • Pinus binatofolio Gilib.
  • Pinus borealis Salisb.
  • Pinus caucasica (Medw.) N.Busch
  • Pinus cretacea (Kalen.) Kalen. ex Trautv.
  • Pinus densiflora f. ussuriensis (Liou & Z.Wang ex Mayr) Kitag.
  • Pinus densiflora subsp. takahasii (Nakai) Silba
  • Pinus densiflora var. ussuriensis Liou & Z.Wang ex Mayr
  • Pinus ericetorum Thore
  • Pinus erzeroomica Calvert ex Gordon
  • Pinus fominii Kondr.
  • Pinus fominii subsp. cretacea (Kalen.) L.V.Orlova
  • Pinus frieseana Wich.
  • Pinus genevensis Carrière
  • Pinus genovensis Garsault
  • Pinus hagenaviensis K.Koch
  • Pinus hamata (Steven) Sosn.
  • Pinus hamata f. frutescens Fomin
  • Pinus hamata var. kochiana (Klotzsch ex K.Koch) Fomin
  • Pinus kochiana Klotzsch ex K.Koch
  • Pinus kochiana var. parviflora (Fomin) Grossh.
  • Pinus krylovii Serg. & Kondr.
  • Pinus lapponica (Hartm.) Mayr

and 89 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.