EASTERN RED CEDARis a medium-sized coniferous evergreen. Requires full sun, preferring poorer soils with rock, gravel, clay, loam, sandy, almost any medium moist to dry sites. Growing up to 2′ per year, in optimum conditions, reaches 20 + feet tall. Has a wide conical to pyramidal shape making it an excellent windbreak tree. Numerous birds build nests or roost in Eastern Red Cedars. Many insects feed on the plant, and many birds/animals eat the berries.
