Northern white cedar

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Light, bright, and natural, Northern white cedar is naturally insect and rot resistant. White cedar is used in craft, construction, and medicine.

Cedar branches are flat, lustrous, and soft, and very fragrant. Cedar wood is used to make closets and trunks that keep insects and moths out of clothing.

Learn to identify a Northern white cedar.

Soft and low strength, but decay resistant.

Northern White Cedar is a beautiful native evergreen that appreciates cool, rich, moist, alkaline soils. It is often used as an evergreen screen due to its dense, bright green fan-shaped boughs and delicate reddish brown peeling bark. Native from Minnesota to Maine and south to northern Illinois this tree loves the cold. It is tolerant of drier, compacted soils as well as Black Walnut.

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Use these evergreen trees as living privacy screens or focal points in your landscape that stay green through the seasons.