NC Native Plant Society:
Plant Details

canadensis

Eastern Hemlock, Canada Hemlock, Canadian Hemlock

Tree

Perennial

Pinaceae (Pine Family)

^(*Key)

72-100 ft.

Part Shade - 2 to 6 hours of sun per day, Less than 2 hours of sun per day

Moist

March, April

Mountains, Piedmont

In a wide variety of habitats in the NC mountains, most typically and abundantly in moist sites in ravines or coves along streams, but likely to be found in all but the driest habitats between 300 and 1500 m (even occurring in peaty bogs, where it has a sickly yellow color and short life expectancy); in the western Piedmont of NC limited to progressively rarer microhabitats (primarily north-facing river bluffs), reaching its eastward limit in NC at a disjunct stand at Hemlock Bluff State Natural Area, Wake County.

Evergreen

Leaves needle-like or scale-like

Simple

Perennial

Highest Wildlife Value

Not Recommended for home landscapes

S4: Apparently secure ^(*Key)

G5 - Secure ^(*Key)

W5: Watch List: Rare because of Severe Decline to Population or Habitat, W6: Watch List: Regionally Rare ^(*Key)

Strongly declining everywhere in the state; most trees are now dead or dying from the adelgid insect.

Trees killed by the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid

Avery County NC

Lisa Lofland Gould

Flat, two-ranked needles, with new cones

National Arboretum, Washington D.C.

Lisa Lofland Gould

USDA PLANTS Database Record