Thuja occidentalis L.
Other common names: White cedar, yellow cedar, featherleaf cedar.
Habitat and range: Arborvitae is found in wet ground and along streams from Canada south to North Carolina and Tennessee and west to Minnesota and Manitoba.
Description: This evergreen tree, which reaches a height of 70 feet and a trunk diameter of 5 feet, needs no special description, as few people within its range are unfamiliar with its flat scalelike leaves and small cones from one-third to one-half inch long. The old bark is shed each year in long, ragged strips.
Part used: The leaves and branchlets.
