Family: Cupressaceae
Scientific Name: Juniperus virginiana glauca
Common Name: Silver Cedar
| Description | A form of the Eastern Red Cedar with silvery gray scale like leaves. |
| Pronunciation | (ju-NIP-er-us)(ver-jin-ee-A-na) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Trees Coniferous |
| Hardiness Zone | 4 |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | average |
| Soil & Site | average |
| Flowers | inconspicuous, dioecious, having both sexes on the same tree |
| Fruit | small berry-like cones, 1-4 seed, mature from green to greenish white to bluish white to blue.\ |
| Leaves | silver gray in the spring, turning to blue green in the summer. |
| Dimensions | dense columnar plant with spreading branches, over 25 feet tall. |
| Misc Facts | In cultivation since 1855. |
| Notes & Reference | #01-Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Michael Dirr), #03-The Hillier Manual of Trees and Shrubs (Hillier Nursery) |
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