Flower Notes:
Monoecious and forms terminal and drooping panicles. Female flowers near end of branches and male flowers are catkins.
Foliage Notes:
Yellow (Needles emerge bright yellow in spring); Green (Soft sage green summer foliage); Brown (Soft russet-brown to orange-brown foliage in the fall)
Stem Notes:
Brown (deciduous or non-deciduous, the latter being slender, alternate and rough)
Fruit Notes:
Green (Interesting green globular cones, brown at maturity)
Soil Notes:
Prefers moist, acid, fine, sandy loams with moderately good drainage; chlorosis is a real problem on high pH soils
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Soft leaves are needle-like, alternate, 0.3-0.75" long, linear-lanceolate, 2-ranked, or scale-like and appressed, (the two forms may appear on the same branch or separate trees), with a prominent mid-vein. Cones develop from pistillate flowers and are globular (0.5-1" dia.) at ends of previous year's twigs, green to purple, and later brown. Staminate flowers are 4-5" drooping panicles. Attractive, peeling, reddish bark.
Indiana Native 
