Is there a good reason why they aren't spruces? That's what they look like...

pine ... cones rarely travel ... but birds do ... plus some are sorta helicopter type seed ...

where are you??

hope your not leaving them in the wheelbarrow ...

needle length might help ....

ken

I thought they looked like pines with bundles, fascicles. You would need to count the number of needles that join together at the stem. 3 Maybe? It could be 2, 3 or 5 .

As part of my son's university degree he had to take a forestry course that included tree identification. He told me the difference between red and white pine is the number of needles in a bundle. Red pine has 3 and white pine has 5. It's hard to see if the needles are bundled together but if they aren't and have needles coming out of the branch they are not pine and probably spruce

Enlarging the photo seems to definately show fasciation. Looks to be a 3-needle variety of pine.

I'll take another close up picture today, but it looks like its got 2 needles coming out of each hole. I'll put a ruler on the needles too. I have so many I don't know how I can pot them all. Right now each of them was dug out with a pretty big root ball because the soil is still nice and wet. What am I going to do with all these??? And where to plant them???? I have a pretty big wet area (sometimes wet in spring and fall), maybe I could put them there.

If you have no place, offer them free to good homes on Craigslist or freecycle.

I couldn't zoom in on my phone but on my computer it does look like two or three needles per bunch...

ok i have looked in my sons tree book and 2 needle bundles belong to pinus banksiana or jack pine. I'd say if the 2 needle bundle is what they have they are jack pine and maybe something you don't want to save. Jack pine is not a pretty looking tree. It seldom grows straight. According to the book. it is a scruby and crooked

Sue, we really need to know your general location.

As others have said, general location, needle number and length, and probably a photo of the pine trees further down, since they are the most likely source for the seedlings.

There are over 100 different species of pine, including maybe a couple dozen or more with needles in groups of 2. And many of these are common landscape ornamentals or even native species so limiting the choice to just a jack (common name for Pinus banksiana) is premature. I agree with both rhizo and babs that location and more information is necessary to determine species.

Ok, thank you all. I will get more info and better pictures for you soon. I don't have any jack pine here that I know of. Location is SE Wisconsin. Zone 4.

Looks like a red or jack pine.