I can see ◼︎ Alaska yellow cedar or Nootka cypress Callitropsis nootkatensis

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Also called:

• Alaska yellow cypress (botanically, a more accurate name from 2010–2021), and
• Nootka cedar and Nootka cypress (which come from a European misunderstanding of the name of the local Nuu-chah-nulth people).

Also called:

• Cupressus        nootkatensis (its official name from 2010–2021), and
• Chamaecyparis nootkatensis and
•  Xanthocyparis   nootkatensis (other former names).

The species-specific name nootkatensis comes from a European misunderstanding of the name of the local Nuu-chah-nulth people.

Since 2021, the only species in new genus Callitropsis.   From 2010–2021, this species was part of cypress  genus Cupressus   Regardless, still part of cypress / juniper / redwood  family Cupressaceae in 🌲︎ conifer  order Pinales.

Native to 🇨🇦 Canada and 🇺🇸 USA's Pacific Northwest (Cascadia).

🗺 Map (scroll down), 🗺 map by county (🇺🇸 USA-48) (color key).

Further south lives the former-sister-species Port Orford cedar  Chamaecyparis lawsoniana,
and on the East Coast lives another former-sister-species ◼︎ Atlantic white cedar  Chamaecyparis thyoides.

Uses by native peoples
(Ethnobotany database)   Its 🪵 wood is used to make sculptures [invariably awesome!], and 🎸︎ guitars.  Note the very fine grain.

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