Tin- limner pin*- occurs almost throughout the Rocky .Mountain 



-ion in ill.- higher elevations, also in Western California on the western 



op.~ ot til.- Sierre \e\ada raime. In Colorado it commonly i;rows 



t -.\ceii Mi" elevations of 7, .".on and 1 l,u<io feet. It is the piiu 1 which one 



mmonly mi'.'is w}i-n approaching timber line and is almost sure 



IK- found upon exposed, wind-swept slopes and ridges at !),()()() to 



It dci-ivcs its name from the lon^ lateral branches whicth 



