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Plant - summer Pioneer Park
Sue Smith | Leaves Seven mile Gulch - Tr 354
Sue Smith | Leaves Prescott,Southview subdivision
Bev Turnbull | Cones - male Forest Trails
Doug McMillan | Cones - female County Rd 65A
Sue Smith | Bark Ponderosa Park Area
Wally Anderson | |
Origin: Native
General Description: Evergreen. Upright. Short trunk with a wide spreading rounded or pyramidal crown. Grows slowly. Young trees look similar to other junipers. Found in dry hills and mesas.
Identification notes: Usually single-trunked; bark divided into rectangular plates, branchlets erect. Leaves on mature branches scale-like, not overlapping, not white on upper surface. Seed cones with 3 to 6 seeds, fibrous to woody of 2 distinct sizes, maturing in 2 years.
Height: 40 feet Width: 20 feet
Habitat Description: Found in pinyon-juniper, pine-oak, juniper-oak, ponderosa pine on dry rocky slopes and riparian woodlands.
Plant Communities: Interior Chaparral, Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest, Riparian
Elevation: 4500 - 8000 feet
Leaf Color: Blue-green, green Type: Scales Shape: Other Margin: Smooth Attachment: Other Hairs: N
Description: 2 leaf types, whip and scale-like; whip leaves <1/4 inch long, not white-coated on top surface; scalelike leaves less than 1/16 inch long, not overlapping, keeled, apex pointed. Dense on branches. Often have drops of resin.
Color: Bluish-gray Type: Cone or cone-like Description: Male cones small pale yellow in large clusters at ends of twigs. Berry-like females cones round, to 1/2 inch, bluish-gray, fleshy with 3 to 4 seeds, maturing in second year. Male and female cones usually on separate trees.
Bark Color: Gray, reddish-brown Bark Texture (Mature): Rough Bark and Branch Description: Checkered, thick and deeply furrowed alligator-like bark distinctive in mature trees. Bark broken into square plates from 1 to 2 inches. Trunk to 4 feet in diameter. Reddish-brown twigs slender and somewhat angular. Twigs quadrate (4-sided).
Spines, thorns or prickles: N |
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