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Sabina racemosa ( Risso) Antoine 1857. Sabina horizontalis (Moench) Rydb. 1912. Juniperus horizontalis, the creeping juniper or creeping cedar, [ 4] is a low-growing shrubby juniper native to northern North America, throughout most of Canada from Yukon east to Newfoundland, and in some of the northern United States .
Binomial name. Juniperus procumbens. ( Siebold ex Endl.) Miquel. Juniperus procumbens is a species of shrub in the cypress family Cupressaceae, native to Japan. This low-growing evergreen conifer is closely related to the Chinese juniper, Juniperus chinensis, and is sometimes treated as a variety of it, as J. chinensis var. procumbens. [ 2][ 3]
Junipers vary in size and shape from tall trees, 20–40 metres (66–131 feet) tall, to columnar or low-spreading shrubs with long, trailing branches. They are evergreen with needle-like and/or scale-like leaves. They can be either monoecious or dioecious. The female seed cones are very distinctive, with fleshy, fruit -like coalescing scales ...
Juniperus ashei ( Ashe juniper, mountain cedar, blueberry juniper, post cedar, or just cedar) is a drought -tolerant evergreen tree, native from northeastern Mexico and the south-central United States to southern Missouri. The largest areas are in central Texas, where extensive stands occur. Ashe juniper grows up to 10 metres (33 feet) tall ...
Juniperus occidentalis, known as the western juniper, is a shrub or tree native to the Western United States, growing in mountains at altitudes of 800–3,000 meters (2,600–9,800 ft) and rarely down to 100 m (330 ft). It is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List because it is a widespread species with an increasing population.
Juniperus communis is highly variable in form, ranging from 10 metres (33 feet)—rarely 16 m (52 ft)—tall to a low, often prostrate spreading shrub in exposed locations. It has needle-like leaves in whorls of three; the leaves are green, with a single white stomatal band on the inner surface. It never attains the scale-like adult foliage of ...
Pinyon–juniper woodland, also spelled piñon–juniper woodland, is a biome found mid-elevations in arid regions of the Western United States, characterized by being an open forest dominated by low, bushy, evergreen junipers, pinyon pines, and their associates. [ 1][ 2] At lower elevations, junipers often predominate and trees are spaced ...
Description. The plant reaches 3–6 meters (9 ft 10 in – 19 ft 8 in), rarely to 9 m, tall. The shoots [which?] are fairly thick compared to most junipers, 1.5–2 millimetres ( 16 – 32 in) in diameter. The leaves are arranged in opposite decussate pairs [ 2] or whorls of three; the adult leaves are scale-like, 1–2 mm long (to 5 mm on ...