#172 most planted
Metasequoia glyptostroboides
Metasequoia glyptostroboides · also Dawn redwood, Water fir, Dawn cypress
ConiferDeciduous
10,275
trees mapped
0.10%
of all named trees
29
cities
6.5 in
median trunk (17 cm, 8,103 measured)
21 yr
median age (33% have a planting date)
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Metasequoia glyptostroboides is a fast-growing deciduous conifer with feathery, fern-like foliage that turns coppery in fall and a distinctive buttressed trunk. It thrives in moist, well-drained soils, tolerates periodic flooding, and is a popular choice for dramatic urban landscape focal points.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 3,6290.50%—7.0 in
- 1,7630.62%32 yr16 in
- 1,4290.13%—2.6 in
- 1,1720.60%6.9 yr4.3 in
- 5630.31%—15 in
- 2930.25%7.9 yr13 in
- 2790.12%—11 in
- 2400.03%—7.3 in
- 2310.47%18 yr2.4 in
- 1860.08%—8.8 in
- 1020.65%2.5 yr0.8 in
- 860.11%3.8 yr2.4 in
- 620.02%—5.7 in
- 510.07%—4.7 in
- 320.01%5.1 yr2.0 in
- 250.07%—17 in
- 240.01%37 yr11 in
- 180.08%—9.1 in
- 170.01%—9.0 in
- 130.11%6.8 yr2.0 in
- 120.00%35 yr7.5 in
- 100.00%—3.0 in
- 100.02%—2.4 in
- 100.01%—2.3 in
- 80.00%—3.5 in
- 50.01%—2.0 in
- 30.00%—1.6 in
- 10.00%—2.0 in
- 10.00%——
Traits
- Form
- Conifer
- Foliage
- Deciduous
- Mature height
- 50–80 ft
- Canopy spread
- 12–20 ft
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Soil
- Well-drained
- Water needs
- High
- Drought tolerance
- Low
Trunk diameters across every city: median 6.5 in, mean 9.0 in, 90th percentile 19 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.
Other Metasequoia in the catalogue
2 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.
