[The Cypress Family in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon and Washington]

The photos above shows several flattened sprays of western red cedar as seen along forest road #070 at the White Salmon River on the southern slopes of Mt. Adams..........June 22, 2005.

The photo at left shows a close-up of the undersurface of several flattened, scale-like leaves of western red cedar. Note the "butterfly" pattern of whitish stomata on the underside of the branches. Photographed along Road #23 at the trailhead for the Riley Trail #66 on the western slopes of Mt. Adams.........October 14, 2005. The photo at right shows a close-up of upper surface of the scale-like leaves of western red cedar as seen along forest road #070 at the White Salmon River on the southern slopes of Mt. Adams............June 22, 2005. The leaves are in opposite, alternating pairs and lack a stomatal bloom on their upper surface.

The photo at left shows a close-up of the cones of western red cedar as seen along the upper Klickitat River along the River Route Road in western Klickitat county........June 22, 2008. The photo at right shows several seedlings of western red cedar growing from the side of the Toutle Trail #238 above Blue Lake, Indian Heaven Wilderness.....August 14, 2024.

Several very large western red cedars growing along the Lewis River Trail #31, Gifford Pinchot National Forest.........May 3, 2015. The trunk of the tree at center is at least 10' diameter at breast height.