Pine Needles

 

 

They’re not all the same.

 

Loblolly Pines.  They’re all over the Southern U.S.  They have medium length needles, maybe 7 inches, in bundles of three.  They look like this:

 

Longleaf Pines, living in roughly the same range as Loblolly, have incredibly long needles.  If you haven’t spent time in the south, you may have never seen pine needles like this:

 

Roughly 15 inches long, also in bundles of three.

 

Here is a baby longleaf.  It looks like a clump of grass.