Mature Height/Spread: Virginia pine (Pinus virginiana) grows 15 to 40 feet in height with a 10 to 30 feet spread.

Growth Rate: The growth rate is slow, less than 12 inches per year.

Ornamental Features: The evergreen needles are grouped in pairs and remain for three to four years. They are yellow-green to dark green, often turning yellowish in winter. The cones grow two to four together or solitary and are 2 to 3 inches long and 1 inch wide.

Landscape Use: Virginia pine is not very ornamental but it is valuable as a cover for dry and barren soils and it is grown for the Christmas tree industry in South Carolina. It does well in poor, dry, heavy clay soils where other pines will not grow. It prefers full sun.