| Chamaecyparis nootkatensis (Lamb.) Spach | |||
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| Family | Cupressaceae — APG family: Cupressaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Cypressus nootkatensis Lamb. | ||
| Common name | alaska cypress | ||
| Description | Medium-sized tree, 20-35 meters tall, with drooping branches; twigs 4-angled or somewhat flattened; leaves dull green, scalelike, appressed, pointed (occasionally acicular and patent on certain branches) ; cones small, globose, gray, with 4-6 scales, each tipped with conical projection, mostly ripening in second year. | ||
| Ecology | Scattered in small groups in coastal forest from sea level up to about 1,000 meters, but best developed below 400 meters. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.