Pinus sabiniana Douglas ex D. Don

Pinus sabiniana occurs at elevations between 150 and 1500 meters. The bioregional distribution is throughout the California Floristic Province (except extreme northern Northwestern California, northern Cascade Range, San Joaquin Valley); it also occurs in the western Great Basin Floristic Province and in the western deserts of California. This tree is found most often on dry rocky habitats in such varied plant communities as foothill woodland, northern oak woodland, chaparral and infertile soils in mixed-conifer and hardwood forests

This pine can attain a height of of to 38 meters, with a trunk occasionally as large as two meters in diameter. Bark is dark gray with irregular furrows, forming yellow plates when very old. The needles occur as three per bundle, nine to 38 cm in lehgtn; the fragrant foliage is gray-green. The brownish ovate-oblong seed cones are pendant, ten to 28 cm. Scale tip is reflexed, elongated and angled; seeds are winged.