Singleleaf Pinyon
Pinus monophylla
A small, bushy native pine of dry, rocky mountain slopes, with grey-green needles and a rugged character that suits desert and rock gardens. It's very tolerant of harsh climates, drought and limy soil once settled. It grows extremely slowly, so buy the size you want.
- Mature size
- 25 × 15 ft
- 7.5 × 4.5 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 5b–9a
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry
Singleleaf Pinyon at its mature size
A mature Singleleaf Pinyon grows to about 25 ft tall and 15 ft wide, taller than most people.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, USDA PLANTS.
Through the year
What Singleleaf Pinyon looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
In leaf · Year-round
Stiff short gray-green needles with a few small round cones.
Photos
Growing Singleleaf Pinyon
- Grows well in
- The desert Southwest, California, and the Plains and Mountain West.
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Good for
- Privacy screen and drought tolerant
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- Great Basin and Mojave mountains (Nevada, Utah, California, Arizona) and Baja California
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Singleleaf Pinyon, that’s about 15 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Singleleaf Pinyon in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other pines
Singleleaf Pinyon
Eastern White PineAll drawn to the same scale.