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, Glaucous, 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, bluish-green, glaucous; 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>