Western Juniper

Juniperus occidentalis

Characteristics

• Bark dark red-brown,stringy,furrowed• Scale like leaves• Blue berries• Blue-green-grey foliage• High desert slopes

Ecology

• “It is a tree that seems positively to rejoice in the most inhospitable situations and, with a flair for the dramatic, to fix itself upon isolated pinnacles of rock”.

Peattie

• 1000-2000yrs• Low mountain slopes, canyon bottoms, dry exposed

plateaus. • Invasive• Expanding range