Taxon: Thuja occidentalis L.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Thuja occidentalis forma buchananii (no accessions)
• Thuja occidentalis forma cristata (no accessions)
• Thuja occidentalis forma filiformis (no accessions)
• Thuja occidentalis forma lutescens (no accessions)
• Thuja occidentalis forma pendula (no accessions)

Common names:

• arborvitae   (Source: Trees US ) – English
  
• eastern arborvitae   (Source: Trees US ) – English
  
• northern white-cedar   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• swamp-cedar   (Source: Monog Cupressaceae ) – English
  
• white-cedar   (Source: HerbSpices ) – English
  
• bei mei xiang bai   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• cèdre blanc   (Source: HerbSpices ) – French
  
• thuier cèdre   (Source: Monog Cupressaceae ) – French
  
• thuya du Canada   (Source: HerbSpices ) – French
  
• Lebensbaum   (Source: HerbSpices ) – German
  
• thuja   (Source: HerbSpices ) – Italian
  
• tuia occidentale   (Source: Mult Glossary Trees ) – Italian
  
• seoyangcheugbaeg   (Source: F Korea ) – Transcribed Korean
  
• thuja   (Source: HerbSpices ) – Spanish
  
• tuja   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; F NAmer)
  
• Materials: essential oils   (fide HerbSpices)
  
• Materials: wood   (fide AH 519)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

More:

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - Manitoba
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Korea
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Russian Federation - European part
  Europe

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds. 1986–1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999–. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. 2:410.
• Farjon, A. 2005. A monograph of Cupressaceae and Sciadopitys. 149–150.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Fowells, H. A. 1965. Silvics of forest trees of the United States.
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 4:460.
• International Seed Testing Association. 1971. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 2. Trees.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Lee, Y. N. 1997. Flora of Korea.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1978. Important forest trees of the United States.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, second edition.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Thuja occidentalis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Thuja occidentalis.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Thuja occidentalis.

Synonyms:

• (=) Thuja occidentalis f. fastigiata (H. Jaeger) Beissn.
  
• (≡) Thuja occidentalis var. fastigiata H. Jaeger (basionym)
  
• (=) Thuja occidentalis f. malonyana C. K. Schneid.
  
• (=) Thuja occidentalis var. nigra L. H. Bailey
  
• (=) Thuja occidentalis var. pyramidalis Zederb.
  

Check other web resources for Thuja occidentalis L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Gymnosperm Database of Christopher J. Earle
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Thuja occidentalis cultivars
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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