🐾 Scots pine

Pinus sylvestris · wildlife atlas entry

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Scots pine ( Pinus sylvestris ) is a species of pine that is native to Eurasia, ranging from Western Europe to Eastern Siberia, south to the Caucasus Mountains and Anatolia, and north to well inside the Arctic Circle in Scandinavia. In the north of its range, it occurs from sea level to 1,000 m (3,300 ft), while in the south of its range it is a high altitude mountain tree, growing at 1,200–2,600 m (3,900–8,500 ft) altitude. It is readily identified by... Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

Record card

Scientific name	Pinus sylvestris
Rank	species
Community observations	124,371 research-grade records on iNaturalist

Classification

kingdom Plantae › phylum Tracheophyta › class Pinopsida › order Pinales › family Pinaceae

Seen in the wild — community photographs

Scots pine photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2021-03-28 · Karczew, Masovian, PL
(c) Szymon Jasina, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Scots pine photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2004-09-15 · Madrid, Spain
(c) Stamatis Zogaris, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Scots pine photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-09-08 · Kęty Spacerowa Żwirki I Wigury, 32-650 Kęty, Polonia
(c) Karol Łanocha, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Scots pine photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-06-19 · КБЖД, Култук - 154 км (Галерея Сосновая), Слюдянский район, Иркутская обл., Россия
(c) Alexey P. Seregin, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Scots pine photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-06-19 · КБЖД, Култук - 154 км (Галерея Сосновая), Слюдянский район, Иркутская обл., Россия
(c) Alexey P. Seregin, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Scots pine photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-06-19 · КБЖД, Култук - 154 км (Галерея Сосновая), Слюдянский район, Иркутская обл., Россия
(c) Alexey P. Seregin, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Scots pine photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-09-11 · Bromölla, SE-SN, SE
(c) Archer Van Loh, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Scots pine photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-06-12 · Печенгский р-н, Мурманская обл., Россия
(c) Elena Valova, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

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