Pinaceae Needles are fascicled, in groups of 5, about 5 inches long, blue-green, evergreen and flexible.
Twigs are gray and smooth.
Branches are whorled on the trunk. Bark is green-gray and smooth plated and grooved with age. Cones are about 7 inches long, brown, thin, and unarmed. Eastern white pine is found on fertile mesic sites in the east and central US, and as far south as northern Alabama. Intermediate shade tolerance.