This year the Leon County Adopt-a-Tree is the eastern red cedar. This pleasant evergreen tree is commonly planted in parks and yards throughout most of the eastern U.S. Even though we refer to this ...

Eastern red cedar or Juniperus virginiana is not a true cedar. It is a juniper and the most widely distributed native conifer in the eastern United States. Redcedar (red and cedar can be spelled ...

A male prairie warbler sings from a branch of an Eastern red-cedar tree in Callaway County. Eastern red-cedar trees have historically provided Christmas trees and other wood products, from pencils to ...

Many people would laugh out loud if they heard someone say cedar trees don’t grow in Missouri. The laughter would probably continue until they looked in a tree book and found out that — according to ...

A cedar waxwing forages for food on the branch of an Eastern red-cedar tree in Jefferson City. Cedar waxwings earn their name for their affinity for the fruits of Eastern red-cedar trees. Over the ...