Synonyms: Atlantic White-Cedar, Chamaecyparis thyoides ver. henryae, Southern White Cedar.
Atlantic White-Cedar is nowhere abundant, growing in a narrow coastal belt from southern Maine to northern Florida and west to southern Mississippi.
Bark is thin, and on old trunks shaggy gray or reddish and fibrous, divided into narrow, flat ridges that sometimes spiral around the stem. Leaves evergreen, scalelike and overlapping, and arranged in flat sprays, which distinguish it from Eastern Red Cedar, the only other evergreen conifer likely to be found near it. Female cones rounded, greenish at first, reddish-brown at maturity, and developing in one summer. Seeds winged, shed in early fall.
In Maryland, it is found in fresh water swamps and along streams, on the Coastal Plain (southern Eastern Shore). It is uncommon (Brown and Brown, 1972).
Host plant of Hessel's Hairstreak and Bald Cypress Sphinx Moth.
There are 86 records in the project database.
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