It reaches up to 5 meters.
It was used for rustic fencing and posts, lumber, poles, shingles, and in the construction of log cabins It is the preferred wood for the structural elements, such as ribs and planking, of birchbark canoes and the planking of wooden canoes.The essential oil within the plant has been used for cleansers, disinfectants, hair preparations, insecticides, liniment, room sprays, and soft soaps.
It is an evergreen needle-leaved tree belonging to the cypress family. It grows in the eastern regions of the USA and Canada.is a coniferous tree with a narrow conical, dense, compact, symmetrical crown. Coniferous leaves are evergreen, scaly.