Native to high elevations and cool climates. May be better adapted to landscape conditions than Canadian Hemlock. Prefers a light shade and moist, well-drained soils. Evergreen screen, large groupings and occasional specimen use. A smaller plant that is more tolerant than Canadian Hemlock.
Margin is entire.
Small, rounded, pubescent. Seed, cultivars are grafted or rooted with difficulty. Scales , mites, wooly adelgid , but less prone to these than Tsuga canadensis . This information is made available through a joint effort of the Departments of Food and Resource Economics and Plant and Soil Sciences College of Agricultural Sciences University of Delaware.