Height: 60–100 ft
Width: 20–30 ft
Watering needs: Moderate; water during dry summers, especially while establishing
Sun needs: Full sun to partial shade
Soil needs: Moist, well-drained soil; tolerates poor soils
Bloom time: Does not flower; produces small cones
Portland Plant List (Backyard Habitat Certification): No
Landscape Use: A tall evergreen conifer for large landscapes and woodland plantings. Its graceful, drooping branches create a distinctive narrow, irregular form.
Ecological Function: Dense foliage provides cover and perching sites for birds. Seeds are eaten by rodents, and some mammals browse the foliage.
Wildlife supported: mountain beaver, black-tailed deer, Roosevelt elk, Douglas squirrel, songbirds
Companion species: western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla), western sword fern (Polystichum munitum), Oregon oxalis (Oxalis oregana), salal (Gaultheria shallon), beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax)
Plant description: A long-lived evergreen conifer with drooping branchlets, flattened sprays of scale-like foliage, and small rounded cones. Its trunk is often irregularly buttressed, and the bark is gray-brown and furrowed.
