Editing Pinus strobus (section)

{{Short description|Species of conifer in the pine family Pinaceae}}
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| name =
| image = Pinus strobus trees.jpg
| image_caption = ''Pinus strobus'' group
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 19 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Farjon, A. |date=2013 |title=''Pinus strobus'' |volume=2013 |page=e.T42417A2978687 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T42417A2978687.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}</ref>
| display_parents = 3
| genus = Pinus
| parent = Pinus subsect. Strobus
| species = strobus
| authority = [[Carl Linnaeus|L.]]
}}

'''''Pinus strobus''''', commonly called the '''eastern white pine''', '''northern white pine''', '''white pine''', '''Weymouth pine''' (British), and '''soft pine'''<ref name=USFS>{{FEIS |type=tree |last=Carey |first=Jennifer H. |date=1993 |genus=Pinus |species=strobus |access-date=12 August 2013}}</ref> is a large [[pine]] native to eastern North America. It occurs from [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]], Canada, west through the [[Great Lakes region]] to southeastern [[Manitoba]] and [[Minnesota]], United States, and south along the [[Appalachian Mountains]] and upper [[Piedmont (United States)|Piedmont]] to northernmost [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] and very rare in some of the higher elevations in northeastern [[Alabama]].<ref name="PLANTS">{{PLANTS|symbol=PIST|taxon=Pinus strobus|access-date=22 January 2018}}</ref> It is considered rare in [[Indiana]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Plants Profile for Pinus strobus (eastern white pine) |url=https://www.plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=PIST |access-date=2020-10-07 |website=www.plants.usda.gov |archive-date=2020-08-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200828231143/https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=PIST |url-status=live }}</ref>

The [[Haudenosaunee]] maintain the tree as the central symbol of their multinational confederation, calling it the "[[Tree of Peace]]",<ref>{{cite book |last1=Graymont |first1=Barbara |title=The Iroquois |date=2009 |publisher=Infobase Publishing |page=21 |quote=The tree had four symbolic roots, the Great White Roots of Peace, spreading north, east, south, and west. If any other nation ever wished to join the League, it would have to follow the White Roots of Peace to the source and take shelter beneath the tree. Atop the tree, he placed an eagle to scream out a warning at the approach of danger. He symbolically planted the tree in the land of the Onondagas, the place of the Grre, the confederate lords, or peace chiefs, would sit beneath it and be caretakers of the Great Peace.}}</ref> where the Seneca use the name '''''o’sóä’'''''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Chafe |first1=Wallace |title=A Grammar of the Seneca Language |date=2015 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-28641-2 |page=18 |url=https://theswissbay.ch/pdf/Books/Linguistics/Mega%20linguistics%20pack/North%20American/Iroquoian/Seneca%20Language%2C%20A%20Grammar%20of%20the%20%28Chafe%29.pdf}}</ref> and the [[Mohawk people|Kanienʼkehá:ka]] call it '''''onerahtase'ko:wa'''''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mohawk Basic Knowledge |url=https://winddancer45.tripod.com/MohawkLanguage.html |access-date=10 September 2023}}</ref> Within the [[Wabanaki Confederacy]], the [[Mi'kmaq]] use the term '''''guow''''' to name the tree,<ref>{{cite web |title=Pine |url=https://www.mikmaqonline.org/servlet/dictionaryFrameSet.html?arg0=pine&method=searchFromEnglish |website=Mi'gmaq-Mi'kmaq Online Dictionary |publisher=Listuguj |access-date=10 September 2023}}</ref> both the [[Maliseet|Wolastoqewiyik]] and [[Passamaquoddy|Peskotomuhkatiyik]] call it '''''kuw''''' or '''''kuwes''''',<ref>{{cite web |last1=Francis |first1=Kmihqitahaman David A. |last2=Newell |first2=Kmihqitahaman-ona Wayne A. |title=Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Language Portal |url=https://pmportal.org/dictionary/kuw-ku-1 |access-date=10 September 2023}}</ref> and the [[Abenaki]] use the term '''''kowa'''''.<ref>{{cite web |title=White Pine |url=http://westernabenaki.com/dictionary/white_pine.html |website=Western Abenaki Dictionary |access-date=10 September 2023}}</ref>

It is known as the "Weymouth pine" in the United Kingdom,<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=77 |isbn=978-1-4027-3875-3}}</ref> after Captain [[George Weymouth]] of the [[British Royal Navy]], who brought its seeds to England from [[Maine]] in 1605.<ref>{{cite book |first=Elbert L. |last=Little |title=National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Eastern Region |section=Eastern White Pine |page=296 |location=New York, New York |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |date=1980}}</ref>