Thuja occidentalis

Northern white-cedar or eastern arborvitae is in the cypress or Cupressaceae family and is native to Eastern Canada and in the northern central and eastern United States bordering the Great Lakes. It is a small or medium-sized tree, often stunted, growing to a height of 15 m.

• Foliage is evergreen, with fan-like branches and scaly leaves closely pressed to stem, in opposite pairs; foliage is aromatic when crushed. Foliage resembles western redcedar (Thuja plicata).
• Seed cones are green to yellow-green slender, 9–12 mm long, 4 mm wide when closed, 6–8 overlapping scales, egg-shaped; cones turn and brown colour, open to 10 mm across. Male pollen cones are minute, reddish, numerous on branch tips in spring.
• Bark is red-brown, peeling in thin strips.
• Thanks to Susan J. Meades for providing the excellent pictures of Thuja occidentalis.