Pine, Hillside Creeper Spreading Scotch

Pinus sylvestris ‘Hillside Creeper’

Pinus sylvestris, commonly called Scots pine, is a fast-growing, conical to columnar, medium sized conifer with distinctive flaking orange/red-brown bark.
It typically grows 30-60’ tall in cultivation, but may reach 100’ in the wild.
It develops an open-rounded, irregular crown as it matures.
It is a very widely distributed pine that is native to northern Europe and northern Asia, but has also naturalized in parts of the northeastern and north-central U.S.
It is the only pine that is native to Great Britain.
Plants will vary in habit, hardiness and needle appearance depending on their specific native geographical growing region.
Scots pine generally features (1) twisted, blue-green needles (to 3” long) in bundles of two, (2) gray to light brown cones (to 3” long) and (3) scaly orange/red bark in upper part but darker red-brown near the base.
The common name of scotch pine is still popular, but is now considered by some experts to be inappropriate.  #3 gallon