General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Shrub
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 7b
Plant Height: 4 to 8 feet
Plant Spread: 6 to 12 feet
Leaves: Evergreen
Needled
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Rabbit Resistant
Drought tolerant
Pollinators: Wind
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil
Monoecious

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Common names
  • Mugo Pine
  • Mugho Pine
  • Swiss Mountain Pine
  • Dwarf Mountain Pine

Photo Gallery
Location: Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Date: 2016-02-04
mature shrub
Location: Frasier, Pennsylvania
Date: 2018-10-18
line of shrubs at a Wawa convienience store
Location: Frasier, Pennsylvania
Date: 2018-10-18
one mature shrub, probably full size
Location: Pottstown, Pennsylvania
Date: 2018-09-30
dead shrub from sawflies and/or scale or wetness
Location: Botanical Garden Meise (Belgium)
Date: 2017-07-23
Location: Darwell Rolling Woods, Alberta
Date: 2007-05-02
Location: Frasier, Pennsylvania
Date: 2018-10-18
foliage
Location: Canton, OH
Date: 2019-07-13
Comments:
  • Posted by ILPARW (southeast Pennsylvania - Zone 6b) on Nov 10, 2018 8:23 PM concerning plant:
    I would say this is the most common variety of Mugo Pine being planted nowadays, making a dense rounded shrub wider than high. Most of the new growth can be pruned away in June to keep it more compact. It can be damaged or killed off by the European Pine Moth that consume one year old needles or by white Pine Scale insects sucking fluids. Native to the eastern Alps and the Balkans.

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