Second most common pine species in the Pine Barrens, particularly in dry, sandy soils. Needles in bunches of twos or threes on the same tree, and usually untwisted. Twigs are whitened. Not as able to recover from fires as well as is pitch pine. Cones are 4-8 cm long and weakly prickled.
Tree tends to be straighter and less scraggly in appearance than pitch pine.
Photographed in Georgian Court College Arboretum.