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§1 Plant

Juniperus communis L. var. depressa Pursh

vernacular common juniper — variety · Cupressaceae


USDA
JUCOD
GBIF
2684721
Rank
variety
common juniper (Juniperus communis var. depressa)
Platephotograph · FreckLesCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Shrub, Tree
Duration
Perennial
Group
Gymnosperm
Family
Cupressaceae Gray
Genus
Juniperus
§2a

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Native
  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
  • SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Native
§2b

County-level range

· 364 counties across 29 states/territories
Legend Native · 364 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 364 counties across 29 states/territories.

Alaska view state ↗ 2 N
Arizona view state ↗ 5 N
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N
Georgia view state ↗ 1 N
Illinois view state ↗ 2 N
Indiana view state ↗ 7 N
Iowa view state ↗ 1 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 4 N
Maine view state ↗ 16 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 13 N
Michigan view state ↗ 54 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 41 N
Montana view state ↗ 28 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 3 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 10 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 10 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 11 N
New York view state ↗ 36 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 2 N
North Dakota view state ↗ 16 N
Ohio view state ↗ 3 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 26 N
Rhode Island view state ↗ 3 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 N
South Dakota view state ↗ 6 N
Vermont view state ↗ 11 N
Virginia view state ↗ 5 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 2 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 44 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/JUCOD ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/2684721 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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