| Scientific Name: | Juniperus horizontalis cvs. |
| Common Name: | creeping juniper, horizontal juniper |
| Family Name: | Cupressaceae |
| Origin: | North America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 2: (-46 to -40 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Conifer, Ground cover |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 2 - 3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Alpine, Erosion control, Filler, Group or mass planting, Mixed shrub border, Reclamation, Rock garden |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Scale-like, Opposite, Imbricate, Prickly, Glabrous, Glaucous, Distinctive smell, Deltoid, Other, Entire |
| Flowers: | n/a (male cone), Brown, Mar-Apr |
| Fruit: | Cone (winged seeds), Blue, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Low growing, dense evergreen mat, sprawling, with trailing branch tips; leaves soft, most scale-like, 1.5-2mm long, tightly pressed to stem; awl-shaped juvenile leaves may also occur in more shaded parts, 4-8mm long, many cvs. bluish/grey-green, glaucous; dioecious - seed cones fleshy, maturing to bluish-purple, slightly glaucous, subglobose, 5-7mm long; seeds 1-2(-3) per cone, 4-5mm long. <a href ="https://www.conifers.org/cu/Juniperus_horizontalis.php" target="_blank">Conifers.org</a> | |