Callitropsis nootkatensis
Callitropsis nootkatensis (D.Don) Oerst.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 15 m
- wide
- 6.0 m
Cupressaceae
Formerly Chamaecyparis excelsa, Chamaecyparis nootkatensis, Cupressus americana, Cupressus nootkatensis, and 5 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- S. Alaska to NW. CaliforniaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 15 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Spread
- 6.0 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -31.6 °C (USDA zone 4b)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension -34.4 °C; Wikipedia -28.9 °C
Not known yet: flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (2)
- Slovenian
- nutkanska pacipresa
- Chinese
- 北美金柏, 黄柏木
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- 3D model: Callitropsis nootkatensis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.