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| Figure 9.—Arborvitae (Thuja occidentalis) |
Habitat and range.—Arborvitae is found in wet ground and along streams from Canada south to North Carolina and Tennessee and west to Minnesota and Manitoba.
Description.—This evergreen tree, which reaches a height of 70 feet and a trunk diameter of 5 feet, needs no special description, as few people within its range are unfamiliar with its flat scalelike leaves and small cones from one-third to one-half inch long. The old bark is shed each year in long, ragged strips.
Part used.—The leaves and branchlets.