Eastern Red Cedar

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• Photo Courtesy of Bailey Nurseries

5 m-7 m

2 m-3 m

• Full Sun

• Average to Dry Soils
• Well-drained

• Fast
• Medium

• Bronze
• Green

• Drought Tolerant
• Evergreen
• Heat Tolerant
• Juglan Tolerant
• Low Maintenance
• Native to Ontario
• Salt Tolerant

• Pyramidal/Columnar
• Upright

• Hedge
• Screening (privacy)

• An upright cultivar of juniper; a good alternative for hedging where cedars are typically used.

• Native to Ontario. Eastern red cedars are found in southern and eastern parts of Ontario and southern Quebec. Its range extends down to the Gulf of Mexico and east of the Great Plains in the United States. Even though its common name is Eastern red cedar, it is a juniper, not a true cedar.Juniper virginiana exhibits foliage that can be open-scale or closed-scale, in colours ranging from silver-gray-green to blue-green to light or dark green. All of these colours change toward bronze for winter.Larval host plant for several moths, including the Juniper Geometer, and butterflies, including The Olive Hairstreak. The foliage provides year-round protection from predators and weather, for birds and mammals, while the seeds (cones) feed over 50 species of birds, as well as small mammals. The cones have notoriously hard coats, usually requiring a pass through a bird's digestive system to effect germination.