Synonyms: Eastern Red-cedar, Eastern Redcedar, Juniperus virginiana virginiana, Sabina virginiana.
A pioneer tree in open areas, such as old fields and other cleared, abandoned land. Thrives in drought and cold, and grows well in rocky, sandy, or clay substrates. Can become invasive in grasslands, especially pasture lands. It can be extremely long lived. (For an overview of Eastern Red Cedar, see Johnson, 2016).
A small- to medium-sized, evergreen tree, usually with a single stem. Commonly upright and columnar, but may be rounded and bushy. Usually dioecious, but sometimes monoecious. Male cones are tiny and yellowish, often numerous, whereas young female cones are tiny, round, and greenish. Mature female cones, or seed cones, are round, bluish, glaucous, and berrylike, and mature in one year (Sibley, 2009). Bark is thin and shreddy, leaves are scale-like.
"On dry soils and red clays, often abundant where calcareous in the Hagerstown valley. Also common on sand dunes and sandy soils, often quite near the shore line along the ocean and around the Bay" (Brown and Brown, 1972).
Host to Cedar Apple Rust, Cedar Quince Rust, and the larval cases of Evergreen Bagworm Moth. Larval host of the Imperial Moth and Juniper Hairstreak butterfly.
Seed cones are an important food source for migrant and wintering birds.
There are 837 records in the project database.
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