Thuja occidentalis or the White Cedar is a small coniferous tree or large shrub with dense, evergreen, yellowish green, aromatic scale-like foliage on spreading fan shaped branchlets.
It grows in a dome shape at first then changes to a conical later and often features multiple main trunks.
It has tiny yellow/green cones that turn brown and fibrous, red-brown bark that weathers to gray with diamond-shaped patterns.
Due to its dense nature it can make a good hedge or screen