| Scientific Name: | Juniperus scopulorum cvs. |
| Common Name: | Rocky Mountain juniper, Wichita Blue juniper, Tolleson's Blue Weeping juniper |
| Family Name: | Cupressaceae |
| Origin: | B.C. east of Cascades, B.C. west of Cascades, Garden origin, U.S. - northwest, U.S. - southwest |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Conifer |
| Mature Size: | 2 - 3m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching, Upright |
| Form: | Pyramidal - widely, Weeping |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Accent plant, Screening, Small garden/space, Specimen plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Alkaline, Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Scale-like, Opposite, Whorled, Prickly, Glabrous, Other, Entire |
| Flowers: | n/a (male cone), Yellow, Brown, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Cone (winged seeds), Blue, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Most are small conical trees to 12m tall; bark reddish-brown, scaly or fibrous and stringy; branchlets 2-4 sided; leaves mostly opposite, scale-like, 1-3mm long, awl-like leaves in whorls of three, needle part 3-7mm long; dioecious - seed cones berry-like, 6-9mm long, bluish-purple to dark blue-black, glaucous; seeds (1-)2(-3) per cone, 3-5mm wide. <a href ='https://www.conifers.org/cu/Juniperus_scopulorum.php' target='_blank'>Conifers.org</a> | |