Western red cedar (Thuja plicata)
- Needles: overlapping, scale-like (<0.2 in.), yellow-green to dark green on top; underside has a white butterfly-shaped stomatal bloom
- Bark: On mature trees, red-brown to gray-brown; ridged and narrowly furrowed with fibrous stringy strips that peel off.
- Cones: Upright and in clusters, up to 1 in. long. Green when closed; brown with 8-12 extended scales when opened.
- Form: Large tree with narrow, open conical head with long pendulous branches.
- Unique identifier: Stringy bark, clustered, upright cones, underside has a white butterfly-shaped stomatal bloom
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- Bark: thin, ridged, & fissured, grayish to reddish. Mature tree bark can be peeled off in long thin strips.
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- Cones: woody, egg-shaped, less than ½-inch thick. Scales are egg –shaped and attached at base.
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- Flat needles