Eastern Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana)

Eastern Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana)*Preorder only* Estimated Height at Pickup: 1 2, 3 gal One of Indianas few evergreens, and a favorite food of cedar waxwings! Young trees are bush like and pyramidal, while adult trees are branching an have a prehistoric feel. Prefers poor, dry soils where competition is minimal, and is drought tolerant. Useful as an evergreen visual barrier! Pollination: Male and female needed. Light: Full Sun, Part Sun Shade Soil Moisture: Mesic, Dry Mesic, Dry Soil

One of Indiana’s few showy clinging vines

and nutlets are eaten by small mammals

including sparrows

Hosts the green and gray comma butterflies

inspiring readers to incorporate moth-loving native plants into their landscapes

ending in bronze-red in fall

shadbush and Juneberry

Closely related to the true sunflowers that it resembles

Soil Type: Sandy

Browsed by purple finch

Notes: Leaves are fairly variable

but trees grow so tall that fallen petals are noticed more often than whole flowers