Western Red Cedar : Thuja plicata

Plant type: evergreen tree
Height: 100'

Light: full to part sun
Soil: moist to seasonally wet

Growth rate: medium
PPL: YES

You know the one. Often curtsying with its branches that curve upward at the end. Love birds (siskins, grosbeaks, waxwings, sparrows, nuthatches)? Think cedar seeds...

The 'tree of life' to PNW Native Americans, its stringy, red bark made basketry and clothing; its trunk canoes.