Pyramidal Arborvitae

I figured these had to be native somewhere, and today I was very surprised to find out where. As we drove south from Elizabethtown to Mammoth Dave (Central Kentucky), the fields were ringed with beautiful mountain ash trees growing together with pyramidal arborvitae. The two looked good together, the dark dense arborvitae made a good backdrop for the brighter green, lacy leaves of the ash. But to someone used to seeing them grown as hedges (usually overgrown and out of control, as mine always become), they look very odd growing out in the wild.