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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Conifers
  5. Conifers
  6. Cypresses, Junipers, Redwoods, and Allies
  7. Cypresses, Cedars, Junipers, and Allies
  8. False Cypress

genus

False Cypress

Chamaecyparis

Traits
Includes
2 native 2 introduced
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Lawson's Cypress native
  • Atlantic White Cedar native
  • Hinoki Cypress introduced
  • Sawara Cypress introduced
  • Formosan Cypress introduced

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Trees
Plant type
Perennial Tree

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native false cypress All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Atlantic White Cedar Chamaecyparis thyoides caterpillars 7 food 2
  • Lawson's Cypress Chamaecyparis lawsoniana caterpillars 4 hosts 2 food 2 flowers 3

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