Plant: Eastern Red Cedar - Juniper
Juniper · Juniperus virginiana
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More about this plant
A native evergreen conifer of the eastern United States that grows dense, erect and pyramidal to 30 or 40 feet tall and 10 to 20 feet wide. The four ranked, scale like foliage is dark blue green and shiny, the reddish brown bark peels in shredding strips, and round blue berry like cones ripen in fall and hold into winter. It grows in full sun on clay, loam, sand or shallow rocky ground across the full pH range and tolerates occasional wet as readily as drought, poor soil and salt. Use it as a specimen, screen or windbreak where a tough native evergreen is wanted.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 40 ft tall and 20 ft wide
- Hardy in USDA zones 2-9
- Evergreen foliage
- Native plant
Plant description
A native evergreen conifer of the eastern United States that grows dense, erect and pyramidal to 30 or 40 feet tall and 10 to 20 feet wide. The four ranked, scale like foliage is dark blue green and shiny, the reddish brown bark peels in shredding strips, and round blue berry like cones ripen in fall and hold into winter. It grows in full sun on clay, loam, sand or shallow rocky ground across the full pH range and tolerates occasional wet as readily as drought, poor soil and salt. Use it as a specimen, screen or windbreak where a tough native evergreen is wanted.
- Foliage
- Dark blue green, scale like, shiny glandular foliage in a four ranked arrangement, with prickly awl shaped juvenile needles.
- Fruit
- Round, berry like cones about a quarter inch across that ripen in the fall of the first year.
- Bark & stems
- Dark gray to light brown and reddish bark that exfoliates and peels in long shredding strips.
- Native range
- South East Canada to Central and Eastern U.S.A. and Mexico
