Scientific Name: Thuja occidentalis 'Fastigiata'
Common Name: pyramidal cedar
Family Name: Cupressaceae
Origin: Canada - eastern, Garden origin, U.S. - northeast
Hardiness Zone: Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C)
Plant Type: Conifer
Mature Size: 5 - 7m x 1.5 - 2.0m (height x width)
Habit: Fastigiate, Upright
Form: Columnar, Pyramidal - narrowly
Texture: Fine
Landscape Uses: Hedge row, Screening, Sheared hedge, Tall background
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media: Acidic, Well-drained
Leaves: Scale-like, Opposite, Imbricate, Leathery, Glabrous, Rhomboidal, Entire
Flowers: n/a (male cone), Yellow, Brown, Apr-May
Fruit: Cone (winged seeds), Brown, Sep-Oct
Key ID Features:
Columnar, fine-textured evergreen commonly used as a hedge; leaves scale-like, dull gray-green (compared to emerald cedar which has more vertically oriented branchlets with thinner, glossy-dark green scale leaves).