View source for Juniperus scopulorum

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|accepted_name=Juniperus scopulorum
|accepted_authority=Sargent
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gard. & Forest
|place=10: 420, fig. 54. 1897
|year=1897
}}
|common_names=Rocky Mountain juniper;Rocky Mountain redcedar
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sabina scopulorum
|authority=(Sargent) Rydberg
}}
|hierarchy=Cupressaceae;Juniperus;Juniperus sect. Sabina;Juniperus scopulorum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cupressaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Juniperus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Juniperus sect. Sabina]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Juniperus scopulorum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees </b>dioecious, to 20 m, single-stemmed (rarely multistemmed); crown conic to occasionally rounded. <b>Bark</b> brown, exfoliating in thin strips, that of small branchlets (5–10 mm diam.) smooth, that of larger branchlets exfoliating in plates. <b>Branches</b> spreading to ascending; branchlets erect to flaccid, 3–4-sided in cross section, ca. 2/3 or less as wide as length of scalelike leaves. <b>Leaves</b> light to dark green but often glaucous blue or blue-gray, abaxial gland elliptic, conspicuous, exudate absent, margins entire (at 20× and 40×); whip leaves 3–6 mm, not glaucous adaxially; scalelike leaves 1–3 mm, not overlapping to overlapping by not more than 1/5 their length, keeled to rounded, apex obtuse to acute, appressed or spreading. <b>Seed</b> cones maturing in 2 years, of 2 distinct sizes, generally with straight peduncles, globose to 2-lobed, 6–9 mm, appearing light blue when heavily glaucous, but dark blue-black beneath glaucous coating when mature (or tan beneath glaucous coating when immature), resinous to fibrous, with (1–)2(–3) seeds. <b>Seeds</b> 4–5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 22.</span><!--

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|habitat=Rocky soils, slopes, and eroded hillsides
|elevation=1200–2700 m (0 m at Vancouver Island and Puget Sound)
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Ariz.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nebr.;Nev.;N.Mex.;N.Dak.;Oreg.;S.Dak.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.;n Mexico.
|discussion=<p><i>Juniperus scopulorum</i> hybridizes with its eastern relative <i>J. virginiana</i> in zones of contact in the Missouri River basin (C. W. Comer et al. 1982) and with <i>J. horizontalis</i> (J. × fassettii Boivin; N. C. Fassett 1945). Relictual hybridization with <i>J. virginiana</i> is known in the Texas panhandle (R. P. Adams 1983).</p>
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name=Juniperus scopulorum
|author=
|authority=Sargent
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Sabina scopulorum
|basionyms=
|family=Cupressaceae
|habitat=Rocky soils, slopes, and eroded hillsides
|elevation=1200–2700 m (0 m at Vancouver Island and Puget Sound)
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Ariz.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nebr.;Nev.;N.Mex.;N.Dak.;Oreg.;S.Dak.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.;n Mexico.
|reference=None
|publication title=Gard. & Forest
|publication year=1897
|special status=
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|genus=Juniperus
|section=Juniperus sect. Sabina
|species=Juniperus scopulorum
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