| Scientific Name: | Juniperus virginiana |
| Common Name: | eastern red cedar |
| Family Name: | Cupressaceae |
| Origin: | Canada - eastern, U.S. - northeast |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Conifer |
| Mature Size: | 7 - 10m x 3 - 4m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching, Upright |
| Form: | Columnar |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Screening, Specimen plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Alkaline, Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Scale-like, Opposite, Whorled, Prickly, Glabrous, Glaucous, Other, Entire |
| Flowers: | n/a (male cone), Yellow, Brown, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Cone (winged seeds), Green, Black, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Most are small conical trees, becoming slightly pendulous; bark reddish-brown, scaly or fibrous and stringy; branches pendulous to ascending; branchlets generally erect; scale-like leaves opposite, arranged in 4 ranks, closely pressed and overlapping, 1.5-2.0mm long; awl-like leaves in whorls of three, needle part 3-7(-12)mm long, many cvs greyish-green, glaucous; usually dioecious - pollen cones at tips, yellow, 1-2mm wide; seed cones berry-like, globose to ovoid, 3-6(-7)mm, glaucous, soft, resinous, blue-black to brownish blue when mature; seeds 1-3 per cone, 1.5-4mm wide. <a href ='https://www.conifers.org/cu/Juniperus_virginiana.php' target='_blank'>Conifers.org</a> | |