What Lodgepole Pine feeds and shelters
- Evergreen cover plus a surprisingly long caterpillar list. As one of the pines, Lodgepole Pine is a keystone plant for caterpillars, and caterpillars are the main food songbirds carry to their nestlings.
- Songbirds find food and shelter in it.
- Deer tend to leave it alone.
Larval host counts published by the National Wildlife Federation for CEC Level I ecoregions, drawn from Douglas Tallamy and Kimberley Shropshire’s host-plant research. Counts are documented species records from the United States portion of each ecoregion; no Canadian host records were used. They describe a genus across its range, not a single plant in one garden.
Bloom calendar
Blooms May to June
- January: not in bloom
- February: not in bloom
- March: not in bloom
- April: not in bloom
- May: in bloom
- June: in bloom
- July: not in bloom
- August: not in bloom
- September: not in bloom
- October: not in bloom
- November: not in bloom
- December: not in bloom
About Lodgepole Pine
Lodgepole Pine is a native tree. It puts out yellow blooms from May to June. Does best in full sun with dry to moist soil. Deer tend to leave it alone.
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