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Thuja plicata is a large evergreen coniferous tree in the family Cupressaceae, native to the Pacific Northwest of North America. Its common name is western redcedar in the U.S. [2] or western red cedar in the UK, [3] and it is also called pacific red cedar, giant arborvitae, western arborvitae, just cedar, giant cedar, or shinglewood. [4]
Western hemlock and western red cedar, which are indicator species in the Western Cascades ecoregions, decline southward in the Southern Cascades, and are replaced by Sierra Nevada species such as California incense-cedar, white fir, Shasta red fir, and sugar pine, with an understory of snowberry, twinflower, Oregon grape, serviceberry, golden ...
Red cedar Eastern red cedar, (Juniperus virginiana) Western red cedar (Thuja plicata) Coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) Rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum) Spruce (Picea) Norway spruce (Picea abies) Black spruce (Picea mariana) Red spruce (Picea rubens) Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) White spruce (Picea glauca) Sugi (Cryptomeria japonica) White cedar
Coastal Douglas-fir is often predominant in southern coastal British Columbia, particularly on eastern Vancouver Island, The Gulf Islands, and the Sechelt Peninsula. The climate is "Csb" Cool Mediterranean, and the droughty summers inhibit development of a climax Western Red Cedar-Grand Fir association.
The Olympic rainforest of Washington supports dense stands of western hemlock, western red cedar, Sitka spruce, and Pacific silver and grand firs. Douglas fir is concentrated in Washington and Oregon. Alaska's predominate species is the western hemlock and Sitka spruce.
A list of tree species, grouped generally by biogeographic realm and specifically by bioregions, and shade tolerance. Shade-tolerant species are species that are able to thrive in the shade, and in the presence of natural competition by other plants.
Mature forest types include Douglas-fir, western hemlock, red alder, bigleaf maple, and western red cedar, but today the region is largely dominated by industrial timber plantations. It is the smallest of the Coast Range subregions, covering 354 square miles (917 km 2 ) in Grays Harbor County north of Aberdeen, Washington .
One of the oldest Douglas fir on record at 1,020 years in age [38] [25] [39] [40] Eureka Tree Coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) 115.824 380.00 United States Eureka, California Note: Standing height surveyed, and tree then cut down in 1914 and measured by lumbermen. [41] [42] Nisqually Tree Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) 115.824 380.00