Pinus flexilis/Limber Pine

To 60’. Zone 2.  Young trees conical becoming rounded with age.  Bark dark gray, deeply furrowed with age.  Native range from Alberta to Texas.  Five needles per cluster, densely crowded on the ends of branchlets, pointing forward, dark green to a slight glaucous dark green.  Very adaptable species. The seeds of Limber Pine are large enough to be of value as food.