Outstanding Features:
Tolerance to hot dry sites. Evergreen foliage provides winter color.

Description:
Height: 15-20'+
Width: 6-8'
Hardiness Zone: 3b

Eastern Red Cedar is native throughout the upper midwest. Foliage varies in shades of green. Foliage usually develops a purple to brownish cast during winter months. Trees are pyramidal in shape. Typical trees of the species are much larger and less dense in growth habit than are the selected cultivars that are usually planted in landscape situations. Sexes are separate. The blue fruits on female trees can add color to the trees when mature.

Requirements and Culture:
Requires full sun and a well drained soil for best results. Becomes quite open and leggy in shade. Adaptable to a wide range of soil pH. Tolerates dry, rocky soil.

Limitations:
Susceptible to cedar-apple rust. Serves as the alternate host for this disease which can then affect apple, crabapple and hawthorn trees.

Selected Cultivars:

'Canaertii' - has a pyramidal form with bright green foliage.

'Hillii' - pyramidal form turning purplish in winter.

Photo Credit: 1 & 3 E. Hasselkus; 2 DCTC. Photograph 3 is the cultivar 'Canaertii'.

Minnesota Power | University of Minnesota | Northern States Power Company

---