This cultivated selection of Douglas-fir is a slow-growing miniature globe of short blue-green needles, suitable for a rock garden or border. It becomes more irregular and open with age, but grows to a maximum height of four feet.

In its native habitat Douglas-fir, a native evergreen tree, has a strong pyramidal growth habit with pendulous lower branches that give it a very graceful appearance. The cones on the species are interesting – they hang downward and each cone scale has a three-pointed bract. Douglas fir is native to the Rocky Mountains and along the Pacific Coast; in the Pacific coastal regions, it can attain heights of up to 250'. They are used for timber and are valued as Christmas trees because of their short needles with good retention.