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This list is arranged alphabetically by and This fact sheet lists conifers that can be grown in Latin name. Some example (cvs.) are listed, Utah, including all native and most introduced but more may exist. Learn about and know conifers, and some suggested cultivars. your site for successful selection and planting. Utah natives are indicated by (*). Introduction USDA hardiness zones and general comments also are Conifers are some of the provided. most important ornamental grown in Utah For more information on landscapes. The same Utah refer to “Trees of species of conifers tend to Utah and the Intermountain be planted over and over, West” by Kuhns, the Utah but many more are available Browser at treebrowser. that have been proven to org and USU’s Extension do well. Take advantage forestry website at forestry. of the diverse selection of usu.edu. For information available conifers to increase on arboreta and tree the beauty and health of our identification go to the last landscapes. page of this fact sheet: http:// goo.gl/WN5DR. This fact sheet provides a fairly complete list of Family trees and that can be +monkey puzzle ( grown in Utah, as well as araucana) – risky, but one all native conifers. Species -cedar has been growing for several that are strictly shrubs (never years at USU; zones 7(6?)-11. trees) are noted. All have been found growing in Utah and most do well somewhere in Utah. Many Family are rare (shown by +) and may not be totally proven, incense-cedar ( decurrens) – many in some are hard to obtain commercially, and many the Salt Lake area; excellent large tree, but small need very particular conditions to do well. Some are cultivars exist; crown is narrow for its height; cvs. much more desirable than others. 'Aureovariegata', 'Compacta'; zones 5-9. +Port Orford cedar (Cupressocyparis x horizontal () – Family Ginkgoaceae or Lawson leylandii) – hybrids of prostrate ; many cvs. including 'Blue Chip', ginkgo () ( macrocarpa 'Blue Mat'; zones 2-7(?). – very tough, beautiful lawsoniana) – well- and Chamaecyparis tree; tolerant of urban established specimens nootkatensis; fast *one- juniper () – conditions; at UofU; growing; several at the native shrub not usually used in landscapes; zones male cvs.; many cvs. Chamaecyparis prefers UofU; cvs. 'Castlewellan', 2-7(?). including 'Autumn Gold', moist sites; many cvs. 'Golconda', 'Naylor’s 'Fastigiata', 'Pendula', *Utah juniper including 'Golden King', Blue', 'Robinson’s Gold', 'Princeton Sentry', 'Santa () 'Silberstar'; zones 5-7(8?). 'Silver Dust'; zones 6(5?)- Cruz'; zones 3-9. 10. – coarse textured tree; zones 3-7.

Port Orford cedar *Rocky Mountain Ginkgo juniper (Juniperus +Nootka falsecypress cypress scopulorum) – tough Family (Chamaecyparis () – native shrub or tree; very *white (Abies nootkatensis) – graceful, good blue color; heat and common; blue foliage; concolor) – toughest of weeping habit; several tolerant; doing many cvs. including the native true ; long doing well at UofU; cv. well in Logan, Utah; 'Gray Gleam', 'Sky needles, blue color; cvs. 'Pendula'; zones 4-8. Rocket', 'Table Top Blue'; Rocky Mountain juniper 'Prostrata', 'Violacea', cvs. 'Blue Ice', 'Blue 'Gray Gleam' Pyramid', 'Glauca', 'Silver zones 3-7. 'Wattezii', 'Wattezii

Smoke'; zones 7(5?)-9. Prostrata'; zones 3-7. eastern redcedar () – very Italian cypress similar to Rocky Mountain juniper but less blue; many cvs. including 'Canaertii', 'Cupressiformis', White fir Nootka falsecypress Arizona cypress 'Emerald Sentinel', 'Grey Owl', 'Spartan'; zones 2-9. +grand fir () – long-needles; from Northwest; growing at UofU; zones 6(5?)-7. +Hinoki falsecypress () northern whitecedar ( occidentalis) – very (Chamaecyparis – classic narrow cypress common tree or shrub; cold hardy; damage obtusa) – 'Gracilis' common; cvs. 'Douglasi Aurea', 'Emerald', 'Globosa', *subalpine fir () – narrow, spire- planted in SW Utah (also like crown; does poorly on warm, dry sites; zones 1-5. doing well at UofU; surviving in Moab); 'Nigra', 'Pendula', 'Techny'; zones 2-8. dwarf forms are cvs. 'Glauca', 'Roylei', +Spanish fir () – very interesting especially nice; cvs. 'Stricta', 'Swane’s appearance; blue color; growing in Murray 'Crippsii', 'Gracilis', Golden'; zones 7-9. ; zones 7(6?)-10(?). 'Nana', 'Nana Gracilis', 'Nana Lutea', 'Tetragona Aurea'; zones 5-8. Italian cypress 'Stricta' Chinese juniper Hinoki falsecypress () – many highly variable cvs. 'Gracilis' including 'Aurea', 'Columnaris Glauca', 'Hetzii', 'Pfitzeriana', 'Stricta'; zones 3-7. +Sawara or Japanese *common juniper falsecypress Northern whitecedar Oriental arborvitae (Chamaecyparis () pisifera) – can be large – native shrub; tough Oriental arborvitae (Thuja orientalis) – winter or small; cvs. 'Filifera', like all ; cvs. damage common; many cvs. including 'Aurea Nana', 'Filifera Aurea', 'King’s 'Compressa', 'Effusa', 'Blue Cone', 'Filifera'; zones 6-9. Gold', 'Plumosa', 'Repanda', 'Sentinel', +western redcedar () – worth trying 'Squarrosa'; zones 4-8. 'Silver Mile'; zones more; many cvs. including 'Aurea', 'Gracilis', Sawara falsecypress Leyland cypress 2-7. 'King’s Gold' Common juniper 'Repanda' 'Hogan', 'Pumila', 'Zebrinus'; zones 5-7. Spanish fir (*) Utah Native (+) Very Rare in Utah (*) Utah Native (+) Very Rare in Utah Atlas cedar ( atlantica) – nice blue color; Japanese (Larix +Serbian found all over Utah; cvs. 'Fastigiata', 'Glauca', kaempferi) – (Picea 'Glauca Pendula'; zones 6(5?)-9. tree or shrub; many omorika) – cvs. including 'Blue doing well in ', 'Nana', a group at Salt 'Pendula'; zones 4-7. Lake City LDS Conference spruce Center; cvs. Japanese larch 'Nana' () – highly 'Expansa', variable and very 'Nana', 'Pendula'; ornamental; many cvs. zones 4-7. including 'Argenteospica', Serbian spruce 'Decumbens', 'Inversa', Oriental spruce 'Nidiformis', 'Pendula', (Picea orientalis) – 'Reflexa', 'Repens'; zones cvs. 'Aurea', 'Gracilis', Japanese red 'Umbraculifera' 2-7. 'Nana', 'Nutans', 'Skylands', 'Wittbold'; Atlas cedar Deodar cedar *Engelmann spruce zones 4-7. Japanese red pine () – nice Deodar cedar () – large cones; large () – tree with interesting dwarf forms; cvs. 'Aurea', our most common native specimen at St. George LDS temple; cvs. 'Aurea', * (Picea 'Globosa', 'Oculis-draconis', 'Pendula', 'Pumila', spruce, but rarely planted; 'Aurea Nana', 'Aurea Pendula', 'Golden Horizon'; pungens) – common; 'Umbraculifera'; zones 3-7. cvs. 'Argentea', 'Glauca'; zones 6-9. cvs. 'Fastigiata', zones 2-7(6?). Engelmann spruce 'Hoopsii', 'Iseli *pinyon (Pinus Fastigiata', 'Iseli edulis) – native; +Cedar of Foxtail', 'Kosten', 'Mesa rarely planted; () – white spruce (Picea Verde', 'Montgomery', zones 4-8. wonderful, stately glauca) – 'Densata' Blue spruce 'Pendula'; zones 2-7(6?). tree; dark green (called Blackhills 'Iseli Fastigiata' Afghan pine foliage; doing well spruce) may be more (Pinus eldarica) at Salt Lake City heat tolerant than some – long-needled; LDS Temple; cvs. ; growing in heat tolerant; 'Compte de Dijon', Orem; cvs. ' planted in SW 'Pendula', var. Globe', 'Conica', Utah; zones 6-8. stenocoma; zones 'Conica Laurin', Afghan pine 5-7(8?). 'Densata', 'Doumetii'; zones 2-6. Cedar-of-Lebanon *limber pine () – European larch White spruce 'Densata' Blue spruce 'Mesa Verde' () – most native; fine texture; commonly planted larch cvs. 'Columnaris', in Utah; deciduous; cvs. +lacebark pine (Pinus 'Glauca', 'Glauca 'Fastigiata', 'Pendula'; +black spruce (Picea bungeana) – beautiful ; Pendula', 'Glenmore zones 2-6. mariana) – very otherwise somewhat like Dwarf', 'Pendula', uncommon; I have Scotch pine; may be hard to 'Vanderwolf’s + seen a young one doing find; cv. 'Compacta'; zones Pyramid'; zones 4(3?)- (Larix occidentalis) – well at the UofU; cvs. 4-8. 7. deciduous; growing at old 'Doumetii', 'Ericoides', Service nursery 'Golden', 'Nana', *lodgepole pine (Pinus Aleppo pine (Pinus site in Big Cottonwood 'Wellspire'; zones 3-6. contorta) – native that is halepensis) – heat Canyon; zones 4-6. rarely planted; zones 2-6. Limber pine tolerant; found in SW European larch Black spruce 'Wellspire' Lacebark pine 'Vanderwolf’s Pyramid' Utah; zones 8-10. (*) Utah Native (+) Very Rare in Utah (*) Utah Native (+) Very Rare in Utah Bosnian pine mugo pine (Pinus +southwestern white *Douglas-fir ( menziesii) – large () mugo) – common pine () native that is sometimes planted; cvs. 'Compacta ', – somewhat like shrubby pine; – often blue colored 'Fastigiata', 'Glauca', 'Pendula'; zones 4-6. Austrian pine; small cvs. 'Aurea', needles; one of the better one growing at Ogden 'Mops', 'Sherwood white (5-needled) Botanical Gardens; Compact', 'Slow for Utah; cv. 'Loma cvs. 'Compact Gem', Mound'; zones 2-8. Linda'; zones 5-9. 'Green Bun', var. leucodermis; zones 6(5?)-8. Mugo pine 'Slow Mound' Austrian pine () – very common Southwestern white pine and tough; cvs.'Aurea', Bosnian pine var. cebennensis, 'Arnold var. leucodermis Sentinel', 'Hornibrookiana'; Scotch or Scots pine zones 4-7. () – Jeffrey pine (Pinus common; orange upper Douglas-fir 'Glauca' jeffreyi) – large pine Japanese white pine bark; often blue colored Family Sciadopityaceae similar to ponderosa () – bluish needles; many cvs. +Japanese umbrella pine ( verticillata) pine; growing in Murray color; cvs. 'Adcock’s and varieties including – very rare; growing at arboretum; zones 3-7. Dwarf', 'Bergman', 'Aurea', 'Beuvronensis', USU for several years; 'Brevifolia', 'Glauca'; 'Fastigiata', 'Watereri'; cvs. 'Aurea', 'Green Star', +Korean pine (Pinus zones 4-7. zones 2-8. Austrian pine 'Jim Cross', 'Pendula', koraiensis) – blue-green 'Richie’s Cushion'; zones foliage; cvs. 'Glauca', +Balkan or Macedonian pine () – Scotch pine 5-7. 'Morris Blue', 'Silveray', white (5-needled) pine; rare; zones 4-7. 'Winton'; zones 3-7. Japanese black pine Family Jeffrey pine (Pinus thunbergiana); English yew ( good ornamental baccata) – commonly pine; doing well at the planted shrubs; shade * (Pinus UofU; cvs. 'Compacta', tolerant; cvs. 'Aurea', longaeva) – native that 'Globosa', 'Iseli', 'Oculus- 'Fastigiata', 'Nana', is somewhat common in draconis', 'Thunderhead'; 'Pygmaea', 'Repandens', Japanese umbrella pine cultivated landscapes; zones 5-9. 'Summergold'; zones very large one growing at 5(4?)-7. the UofU; drought hardy; cv. 'Sherwood Compact' Japanese black pine Japanese yew () – common planted (actually ); +Himalayan pine shrubs; shade tolerant; cvs. 'Aurescens', 'Capitata', zones 5(4?)-7. () – 'Expansa', 'Nana', 'Pyramidalis'; zones 5(4?)-7. Bristlecone pine very long needles; cold Yew hardy; doing well at the UofU; cv. 'Zebrina'; *singleleaf pinyon zones 5(4?)-7. () – native that is rarely +golden-larch planted; zones 5(4?)- Ponderosa pine ( amabilis 9. *ponderosa pine (Pinus or P. kaempferi) ponderosa) – native large – deciduous; cv. + pine; commonly planted; 'Annesleyana'; zones (Pinus monticola) – long-needles; zones 3-7. 5(4?)-7. zones 5-7. Singleleaf pinyon Himalayan pine (*) Utah Native (+) Very Rare in Utah (*) Utah Native (+) Very Rare in Utah Family + or common Chinafir () – very rare; growing at USU for several years; cv. 'Glauca'; zones 6(5?)-9.

Giant giant sequoia ( giganteum) – fairly common in Salt Lake valley, Ogden, & elsewhere; planted specimen in Pine Valley Mtns. is 110 feet Cunninghamia tall; cv. 'Pendulum'; zones 6(5?)-8.

baldcypress ( distichum) – deciduous; swamp species, but does well elsewhere; on USU, dawn redwood UofU, and BYU campuses; cvs. 'Fastigiata', ( 'Pendens', 'Shawnee Brave'; zones 4-11. glyptostroboides) – deciduous; nice fall color; similar in some ways to baldcypress; cvs. 'Emerald Feathers', 'National', 'Ogon', 'Rowena', 'Sheridan Spire'; zones 4-8. Dawn redwood

Dawn redwood Baldcypress (*) Utah Native (+) Very Rare in Utah

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