Editing Knobcone pine (section)

{{Short description|Pine tree found in North America}}
{{speciesbox
| image = Pinus attenuata1 Shultzc.jpg
| image_caption =
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Farjon, A. |date=2013 |title=''Pinus attenuata'' |volume=2013 |page=e.T42343A2974092 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T42343A2974092.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}</ref>
| genus = Pinus
| parent = Pinus subsect. Australes
| display_parents = 3
| species = attenuata
| authority = [[John Gill Lemmon|Lemmon]]
| range_map = Pinus attenuata range map 1.png
}}

The '''knobcone pine''', '''''Pinus attenuata''''' (also called ''Pinus tuberculata''),<ref>{{cite book|last1=Chase|first1=J. Smeaton|title=Cone-bearing Trees of the California Mountains|publisher=[[A.C. McClurg & Co.]]|others=[[Carl Eytel|Eytel, Carl]] (illustrations)|year=1911|location=Chicago|pages=32–34|chapter=''Pinus tuberculata'', Also called ''P. attenuta'' (Knob-cone-pine, Scrub-pine)|lccn=11004975|oclc=3477527|author-link1=J. Smeaton Chase|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/conebearingtrees00chas/page/32/mode/2up}}</ref> is a tree that grows in mild climates on poor soils.  It ranges from the mountains of southern [[Oregon]] to [[Baja California]] with the greatest concentration in northern [[California]] and the Oregon-California border.<ref name="Moore2008">{{cite book |author1=Moore, Gerry |author2=Kershner, Bruce |author3=Craig Tufts |author4=Daniel Mathews |author5=Gil Nelson |author6=Spellenberg, Richard |author7=Thieret, John W. |author8=Terry Purinton |author9=Block, Andrew |title=National Wildlife Federation Field Guide to Trees of North America |publisher=Sterling |location=New York |year=2008 |page= 85|isbn=978-1-4027-3875-3}}</ref>