Golden Mop Threadleaf Cypress
Chamaecyparis pisifera ‘Golden Mop’ · a gold threadleaf cypress
A shaggy mound of golden, thread-like foliage that glows all year, slow-growing and easy in a border, rock garden or container. Full sun brings the brightest gold; give it soil that drains well.
- Mature size
- 5 × 5 ft
- 1.5 × 1.5 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 4a–8b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Dry to moist
Golden Mop Threadleaf Cypress at its mature size
A mature Golden Mop Threadleaf Cypress grows to about 5 ft tall and 5 ft wide.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: NC State Extension, Chicago Botanic Garden.
Through the year
What Golden Mop Threadleaf Cypress looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
In leaf · Year-round
Shaggy golden yellow thread-like foliage.
Growing Golden Mop Threadleaf Cypress
- Grows well in
- The Northeast, the Midwest, the Southeast, and the Pacific Northwest.
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Good for
- Hedge, small space, foundation planting, specimen, and drought tolerant
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- Japan
Spacing for a hedge
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Golden Mop Threadleaf Cypress, that’s about 5 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Golden Mop Threadleaf Cypress in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other cypresses
Dwarf Hinoki Cypress 'Kosteri'
Dwarf Golden Hinoki Cypress 'Nana Lutea'
Dwarf Hinoki Cypress 'Nana Gracilis'Golden Mop Threadleaf CypressAll drawn to the same scale.