Photo of the 2022 United States Capitol Christmas Tree at dusk, featuring the Washington Monument. Each year, the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree (also known as the "People's Tree") is selected by the USDA Forest Service from a different part of the United States. For 2022, the honor was given to a 78-foot-tall red spruce affectionately named "Ruby" (shortened from the spruce's scientific name, Picea rubens) from the Pisgah National Forest in the southern Appalachians in western North Carolina.