Foliage:
Silver (Silvery gray-green evergreen foliage)
Fruit:
Blue (An abundance of attractive blue berries (cones))
Soil:
Widely adapted to soils, except those that are wet
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Leaves mostly scale-like, 4-ranked, closely pressed and overlapping, 0.06" long, and free at apex. Awl-like leaves (0.25") are glaucous above, and green below, usually in pairs found mostly on older plants. Branchlets are very narrow (less than 1 mm thick). Bruised foliage smells of cedar. Gray brown to red brown bark exfoliates in long strips.
