An unkempt cedar can be pretty sloppy in appearance. Cedar grow on from branches touching the ground, as they do from seeds released from cones that are only about one-half inch long.

Red cedar, the most widely distributed conifer in the eastern United States grows a desirable wood at maturity and is a favorite tree in the landscape.

Every year the eastern cottonwood trees in Michigan release their fluffy seeds. The end of June likely marks the end of this process. Here's what to know.

The sight of burning cedar, then, should be a glorious one. Yet uncontrolled wildfires, especially of such flammable trees, are anything but.

The Clanwilliam cedar lives only in South Africa’s Cederberg Mountains. There, conservationists are racing to save it from climate change.

Everywhere, that is, but in the “cedar” section of any book about tree species. That’s because the eastern red cedar isn’t a cedar tree — it’s a juniper tree.

A maple tree in Walford continues to leaf-out March 30 as conditions warm. Iowa’s silver maples and silver maple hybrids produced a surplus of seeds this year, likely as a response to several ...

"Notes on a Tree" real-time map explores the importance of trees in urban design, as participants receive pine or cedar seeds and geotag where they've been planted.

Two decades after Cedar fire, restoring Cuyamaca’s tree canopy is years away. Some birds may never return. ‘There has been a measurable loss of wildlife species and, for many of them, we need ...

Every year the eastern cottonwood trees in Michigan release their fluffy seeds. The end of June likely marks the end of this process. Here's what to know.