Trees to 14m; trunk to 0. diam., strongly tapering, much branched; crown usually rounded, dense. Bark red-brown, irregularly furrowed or cross-checked, scaly. Branches spreading and ascending, persistent to near trunk base; twigs stout, orange-brown, aging brown to gray, sometimes sparsely puberulent. Buds ellipsoid, light red-brown, 0.5--0.7cm, resinous; scale margins fringed. Leaves 1(--2) per fascicle, ascending, persisting 4--6(--10) years, 2-- ´ 1.3--2(--2.5)mm, curved, terete (though often 2-grooved), gray-green, all surfaces with stomatal lines, margins entire, apex subulate; sheath 0.5--1cm, scales soon recurved, forming rosette, shed early. Pollen cones ellipsoid, ca. 10mm, yellow. Seed cones maturing in 2 years, shedding seeds and falling soon thereafter, spreading, symmetric, ovoid before opening, broadly depressed-ovoid to nearly globose when open, 4--6(--8)cm, pale yellow-brown, nearly sessile; apophyses thickened, slightly raised; umbo subcentral, raised or depressed, nearly truncate, apiculate. Seeds cylindric-ellipsoid; body 15--20mm, gray-brown to brown, wingless. 2 n =24.
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An evergreen pine tree. It grows 15 m high and is a broad cone shape. The bark is grey and has narrow ridges. The leaves are needle like and rigid and curved. They are 5 cm long and taper to a sharp point. They occur singly and are grey-green. They are on stout orange shoots. The flowers occur in separate clusters on young shoots. Male flowers are yellow and female flowers are red. The fruit is a cone 5.5 cm long. It is green but ripens to grey-brown.
Dry low-montane or foothill pinyon-juniper woodland, often forming extensive open forests; at elevations from 1,000-3,000 metres.
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It is a temperate plant. It grows naturally on dry rocky mountain slopes in the United States. It suits hardiness zones 6-9.
Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
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