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Pinus monophylla, the single-leaf pinyon, (alternatively spelled piñon) is a pine in the pinyon pine group, native to North America. The range is in southernmost Idaho , western Utah , Arizona , southwest New Mexico , Nevada , eastern and southern California and northern Baja California .
The pinyon or piñon pine group grows in southwestern North America, especially in New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Utah, with the single-leaf pinyon pine just reaching into southern Idaho. The trees yield edible nuts , which are a staple food of Native Americans , and widely eaten as a snack and as an ingredient in New Mexican cuisine .
Single-leaf pinyon: Pinus monophylla: 1959 [36] Great Basin bristlecone pine: Pinus longaeva: 1987 [36] New Hampshire: American white birch: Betula papyrifera: 1947 [37] New Jersey: Northern red oak: Quercus rubra: 1950 [38] New Mexico: Piñon pine: Pinus edulis: 1949 [39] New York: Sugar maple: Acer saccharum: 1956 [40] North Carolina: Pine ...
Pinus monophylla - Single-leaf pinyon; Pinus monticola - Western white pine; Pinus muricata - Bishop pine; Pinus ponderosa (syn. P. washoensis) - Ponderosa pine; Pinus radiata - Monterey pine, radiata pine; Pinus remota - Texas pinyon, papershell pinyon; Pinus sabineana - Gray pine, foothill pine, digger pine; Pinus strobiformis - Southwestern ...
Pinus monophylla × P. edulis – Single-leaf pinyon × Colorado pinyon; Subsection Strobus. Pinus pumila × P. sibirica [7] – Japanese stone pine × Siberian pine;
Pinus remota, commonly known as the Texas pinyon or papershell pinyon, is a pine in the pinyon pine group, native to southwestern Texas and northeastern Mexico.It can be distinguished from other pinyon species by its thin-walled seeds, which made it especially attractive as a food to Indians and Mexicans living where it grew.
Single-leaf pinyon–Utah juniper woodland in northeastern Nevada near Overland Pass at the south end of the Ruby Mountains. Pinyon–juniper woodland, also spelled piñon–juniper woodland, is a biome found mid-elevations in arid regions of the Western United States, characterized by being an open forest dominated by low, bushy, evergreen junipers, pinyon pines, and their associates.
Older classifications split the genus into three subgenera – subgenus Pinus, subgenus Strobus, and subgenus Ducampopinus (pinyon, bristlecone and lacebark pines) [3] – based on cone, seed and leaf characteristics.