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Origin: Native Similar Species: Juniperus pinchotii, Juniperus erythrocarpa
General Description: Evergreen. Nearly always multi-trunked and more shrub-like than other junipers with open round crown and limbs well-hidden by lower branches. Crown rounded.
Identification notes: Multi-stemmed shrub or tree; male and female cones on separate plants. Bark fibrous, exfoliating in strips. Branchlets erect. Leaves scale-like, <1/8 inch, undersides have conspicuous glands. Seed cones reddish-blue to brownish-blue, juicy.
Height: 25 feet Width: 8 feet
Habitat Description: Found on dry hills, plains, and plateaus, often mixed with ponderosa and pinyon pines and other juniper species. More common north of Prescott, Arizona.
Plant Communities: Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest
Elevation: 3000 - 7000 feet
Leaf Color: Green to dark green Type: Scales Shape: Other Margin: Other Attachment: Opposite Hairs: N
Description: Scale-like leaves and whip leaves; scale-like leaves small, compact, keeled, taper to a point, to 1/16 inch long, tight and crowded on the twig in opposite pairs resulting in a slightly square twig, with elongate glands, most without white secretions.
Color: Reddish-blue to brownish-blue Type: Cone or cone-like Description: Pea-size berry-like round cones to 1/4 inch in diameter, usually maturing in 1 year. Reddish-blue at maturity and covered with a bluish waxy substance. 1 to 2 seeds per cone. Stays soft and juicy at maturity.
Bark Color: Gray to brown Bark Texture (Mature): Shreddy or peeling Bark and Branch Description: Scaly with very irregular furrows and exfoliating ridges. Peeling, shreddy and fibrous. Trunk to 1 foot in diameter. Reddish-brown twigs moderately stout and somewhat angular.
Spines, thorns or prickles: N |
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